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Word: lee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...alumna of Wellesley College, I wish to take exception to your reference to Katharine Lee Bates, author of "America the Beautiful" as "onetime Wellesley professor." Herself a graduate of Wellesley, after a lifetime of service to the college from instructor to head of the department of English literature, she is now professor emeritus, honored and well beloved for "all times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 16, 1927 | 5/16/1927 | See Source »

...Ledbetter Lee, famed publicity counsel, did an unusual thing last week by printing above his own signature a commendation of the $3,500,000 that Harvard Law School is collecting for its endowment fund. He printed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: In Florida | 5/16/1927 | See Source »

Married. W. Lee Smith, 32, Grand Dragon of the Indiana Klu Klux Klan; to Katharine Halbig, 24; secretly, after eloping; at Louisville, Ill. Indiana Klansmen, discovering last week that the bride is a Roman Catholic, were reported to be "in a rage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 16, 1927 | 5/16/1927 | See Source »

...Author. The shrewd, pitiless accents of Edgar Lee Masters, who was born in Garnett, Kan., in 1869, were heard in Chicago long before he turned professional poet. He was a trial lawyer with side interests in Democratic politics. Writing poetry was another sideline. His friend, Publisher William Marion Reedy of Reedy's Mirror, refused several of his contributions, but accepted from one "Lester Ford" some subjective epitaphs on imaginary dwellers in an imaginary Illinois town called Spoon River. This "joke" was the beginning of the Spoon River Anthology. But before Spoon River waxed famous, Poet Masters adopted another pseudonym, "Elmer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Apple Pie, Red Pepper | 5/16/1927 | See Source »

...BRIEN?Edgar Lee Masters?Boni & Liveright...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Apple Pie, Red Pepper | 5/16/1927 | See Source »

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