Word: lea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...remove these flies is the purpose of a socialite undertaking called the New York Theatre Assembly, which has now presented the first of a series of "amusing plays, in an intimate theatre, before a selected audience." The curtain rises at 9 o'clock. The play, by Fannie Heaslip Lea, describes the love affairs of two men, two women and a gigolo. Mary Young, expert in the impersonation of giddy dowagers (Dancing Mothers, Gypsy) is beset by the gigolo (Alberto Carrillo), and only escapes when her girlhood suitor (Hugh Miller), upon whom her family had frowned, returns after two decades...
Until Robert Marion La Follette Jr. took his seat in the Senate at the age of 30 (in 1925), the youngest Senator ever to sit legally was Luke Lea of Tennessee, aged 31, in 1911. Henry Clay of Kentucky sat in 1806, when he was 29, but in doing so he took a liberty with the Constitution. Had Luke Lea been renominated in 1916 and again in 1922 and still again in 1928 he would today, aged 50, be seventh in Senate seniority. But there was War in 1917 and Luke Lea organized an artillery battalion, became a real Tennessee...
...Lea could remember Chéri as a baby ... by turns adored or forgotten, matured among blotchy maids and tall sardonic valets. . . ." At 14 Chéri fled from boarding school restraint, at 18 he was a miniature old man with black circles under his eyes, "a fussy little property owner with his nose in everything"?needlessly, for his mother was a well-paid harlot...
Died. George Lea Lambert, 23, of St. Louis, "Listerine" scion, vice president of Von Hoffman Aircraft Co., son of Major Albert Bond Lambert (official observer of the St. Louis Robin's endurance flight? see p. 47); near Black Jack, Mo., when his plane crashed, killing also Student Pilot Harold Jones. Last year, flying from his graduation exercises at Princeton University, Airman Lambert crashed with his cousin and classmate, James Theodore Walker near Pottsville, Pa., killing Walker...
...small fault of her own, for she most industriously lies to the exhaustive questionnaire he conducts whenever she comes home of an evening. By ingenious analyses he often comes very close to truth about her daily doings. One afternoon she goes to the Trocadero Theatre to see a certain Lea perform. Remembering the Sapphic reputation this actress has, Marcel recalls his Albertine from the matinee. That night, Albertine having been anxious to attend a party at the Verdurins', Marcel goes instead, seeking the cause of the attraction, which develops to be one Mile. Vinteuil, a guest expected there. Follows...