Word: lee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...secret: Josef Vis-sar-ee-o'-nuh-vich Zoo-gaash-vee'-lee...
There are in New York only about a dozen really important producers. Their names remain fixed while those of actors shine and grow dark. David Belasco, Lee Shubert and his brother Jake, Sam Harris, "Ziggy," the Selwyns, George M. Cohan, Winthrop Ames, William A. Brady, A. H. Woods, George White, Dillingham-everyone who sees plays or reads about them has heard of these. There is only one new man among the first-line producers. Younger than the rest but equally successful, he took it easy last week while others were in a ferment of excitement, getting their new offerings ready...
...archipelago that lies just north of Australia, like scattered shards of a frail continent, is the home of cannibals, gibbons, serpents and birds of paradise. To get some of those birds, and on his way to photograph other jungle life, for the New York Zoological Park, Curator Lee S. Crandall left Manhattan last week. At Port Moresby, Papua, he will make up his field expedition of habitants and natives. Particular end of his quest is the "Rudolf," largest and most gorgeous bird of paradise. When it is not drifting between twilit trees, it hangs upside down, its feathers swaying about...
...Class A yachts. Her sailing time was 16 days, 21 hours.* Miss Helen G. Bell, daughter of the Elena's owner, wrote a seaworthy account of the voyage for the New York Times. She told of one rough afternoon and night: "The ship heeled over until the lee rail was awash and now and then as she shipped seas over the stern the water raced down the scuppers. "When I turned in for the night the sky was covered with ominous black clouds. The sea seemed infinitely large, while our little boat had shrunk in size since we left...
Assassination of individual Britons in Egypt is the one weapon left to individual Egyptians; but after the assassination of British Major General Sir Lee Oliver Fitzmaurice Stack (TIME, Dec. i, 1924) the British Empire demanded and received from Egypt an indemnity of ?500,000 (about $2,300,000), together with other humiliating capitulations...