Word: leading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Menjou has such wholesome tastes as a penchant for garlic. Therefore, when Henry and Mrs. Ford led off in a lancers, Mr. Menjou followed, with his fiancée, Cinemactress Kathryn Carver, whom he will shortly espouse in Europe. Naturally the smart folk of the Majestic followed gaily the lead of Motor Man Ford when he proceeded to waltz, polka, mazurka and Virginia reel. Tales of these dancings and prancings flashed ahead of the Majestic and spiced English comment and curiosity about Celebrity Ford, until his arrival became London's most toasting-hot teatime news...
...should become a laborer, he might poison union minds with European socialism. As a scientist he would have to be watched, for there is no telling what dastardly machines he might sell to the enemies of the U. S. Even as a barber, his chatting to customers might lead to the fermenting of the un-American ideas. What, then, can a Rhodes Scholar do when he returns to the U. S. after three years at Oxford? Practically nothing-if the words of Congressman Fred Albert Britten of Illinois and the editorials of William Randolph Hearst's newspapers are carried...
...chess team representing Harvard lead a team from Princeton who finished second to the University in the last annual tournament of the H-Y-P-W. College Chess League, 2 to 1 after an afternoon session Saturday. Although originally it was planned to contest this first match of this year's tournament on five boards, due to the non-appearance of one of the Tiger men, only four were used...
...Robinson '31 was defeated on the second board by J. C. Coatman of Princeton, G. F. Gravell '28 sent Harvard into the lead with a win over J. C. Webster in a Vienna opening which went to 39 moves, and F. N. Rich '29, and S. Emery of the Tigers after emerging from a Scotch opening in which Emery had the white side, adjourned their game evenly matched...
...they chose to say that they would not endure the intolerable indignities to which they are subjected they would very soon command a new kind of respect in the nation. Nothing can excuse or explain away spinelessness. But if the educators in the public schools have to lead a double life it is not due wholly to personal timidity. It is due to a confusion of mind...