Word: le
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...furniture is old except a new duralumin lamp upon the desk. The President found it all just as he had planned it. Waiting in an adjoining office ?the only one in the building that is pink instead of green?to take his dictation was Private Secretary Marguerite Le Hand, known to the whole Roosevelt family as "Missy." She, too, was smiling. In fact everyone was pleased with the new offices except the Secret Service men. Chubby-cheeked Richard Jervis, chief of the detail which has been guarding the lives of Presidents since the McKinley assassination (1901), and his able...
...swank clientèle moved slowly up the Island of Manhattan, Lord & Taylor's followed. In the 1850's the store was on Grand Street, where the "carriage trade" rolled smartly up to its doors. When the President-elect visited the city in 1861, the World reported: "A large bow window at Lord & Taylor's well-known establishment was entirely filled with ladies. ... As Mr. Lincoln was passing they rose en masse, waved their cambric welcome and gave utterance to as hearty cheers as are often heard from a broader-chested and stronger-lunged people...
Painting is his métier but the cinema is Salvador Dali's hobby. Already he has written and helped to produce two surrealist cinemas, Le Chien Andalou and L'Age D'Or. The latter film, an irrational hodge-podge of sense and sensuality, was banned in Paris but shown behind locked doors in Manhattan two winters ago. Excerpt from the official synopsis...
...starting lineup will be: Dubiel, le; Burton, lt; Brookings, lg; Comfort, c; Gundlach rg; Adlis, rt; Kelly, re; Haley, qb; Moseley, lhb; Watt, rhb; and Jackson...
...lineup: Train, Le.; Seett. l.l.: Curtin, l.g.; De Angelis, c.: Grossup. r.g.: Wright, r.t.; Kelley. r.e.; Resee q.b.; Morton, l.h.b.: Rankin r.h.b.: Whitchead...