Word: lee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...publicity-seekers, last fortnight attacked Educator Nicholas Murray Butler for allowing Columbia University to conceal somewhere about its curriculum "a course in press agentry." Editor & Publisher viewed with alarm the growing profession of ''public relations counsel." It warned, editorially: "This is the business that Ivy L. Lee, Edward L. Bernays. William B. Shearer...
...chansons which no one will be able to whistle but which everyone will want to hear again. The negligible story tells of a boy (Norman Foster) who leaves Schenectady to write lyrics in Manhattan. His June Moon is a success and, having narrowly escaped marriage with a shapely extortionist (Lee Patrick), he weds the blonde chit whom he first met on the train (Linda Watkins...
...authorities did not relax the customary discipline, cadets agitated by State feeling cared little for punishment or demerits received,. Seceding Southern States took with them their sons who, once loyal Unionists were soon to tear at the throats of their Northern Classmates. The names of Grant, Jackson, Stuart, and Lee will live long in the annals of war and of fame. But the "Lost Cause" was indeed lost and after 1865 life at West Point returned somewhat to normal...
...when the Mexican War broke out, about thirteen hundred men had graduated from the Academy, many of whom rendered conspicuous services to their country. Lee, Bragg, Sherman, Hooker, Grant, and McCellan are but a few of the West Point names distinguish-in the war. Winnfield Scott, who captured Mexico City, wrote in 1860 this famous statement, which every Plebe knows by heart: "I give it as fixed opinion, that but for our graduated cadets, the war between the United States and Mexico might, and probably would have lasted some four or five years, with, in its first half, more defeats...
...very good one, it presents Mr. Meighan in the new role of detective, and he proves himself quite efficient in solving the famous Argyle murder, doing it in a way that will delight any lover of mystery. He is ably supported by H. B. Warner and Lila Lee...