Word: lee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pitcher, Butch Burnham: Catcher Roar of the Crowd Brigham: first base, Powell: second base, Nicholas: short stop, Keeu; third base, Lee: right field, Who Stole the People's Money Rockenberg; center field, Captain Tough Customer Stevens; left field, Cy and I Confess Sloane: Substitutes, Graves, Boston, Bean, Broad, Parsons: water boy and bad boy mascot, chairman of the Tiger, Price Day. Daily Princetonian
...Manhattan. In the main speech of the occasion, National Commander Walter C. Mabie, of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, flayed Mayor James J. Walker of New York for going last month to the unveiling of Georgia's Stone Mountain memorial to General Robert E. Lee, and for appointing small Robert E. Lee IV to the mayoral staff which welcomed the Bremen fliers...
Commander Mabie said General Lee was comparable to "an aviator who would put water in the gas tank of a transatlantic plane...
Most monkeys are gay & cheerful, but the proboscis monkey from Malaysia and the howling monkey from the tropics are a pair of supercilious snobs. Dr. Raymond Lee Ditmars of the N. Y. Zoological Garden has kept a howling monkey for three years only by pampering and coddling it, keeping it in a fine special cage, with "Vitaglass" windows to admit the ultraviolet...
...Lee Stack was assassinated. Promptly the British government seized the Egyptian customs, asked, and received, indemnity. So the matter rested, apparently quiet, until the recent outbreak. That the fight for independence continues is demonstrated in the periodic stifling that the British apply to Egyptian politics. A few weeks ago an Egyptian cabinet resigned, unable to obtain its ends against British opposition. Today the same problem confronts the present government. Each successive ministry wants but one thing--Egyptian freedom...