Word: lee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their class directory, thumb-marks of Harvard 1921-ers may be found upon the name of Thomas S. Lament, son of famed Morgan Partner Lament, upon the name of a Cabot, a Frothingham, a Lee, a Lothrop, a Lowell, a Sedgwick. They do not all know one another. But all know Powers Hapgood. He is their only coal miner. He prepared for Harvard at Andover, where Yale is the most popular college...
When Speaker of the House of Representatives Robert Lee Babbitt got up to speak, he roundly flayed the Fergusons. Then rose Mr. Moody. He spoke for less than five minutes. ". . . I ask, as did the Hebrew of old, that God give me now knowledge and wisdom to come in and go out before this people; for who can govern this people that is become so great...
...Died. Lee Kohns, 62, wealthy importer of china and glass, one-time president of the New York Board of Trade, nephew of Isidor and Nathan Straus; in Manhattan. The chair of American History, Civilization and Letters, at the Sorbonne, Paris, which was to be inaugurated last week, was Mr. Kohns' gift in memory of his grandfather Lazarus Straus, who although born in France, was made a German citizen after the formation of the Rhenish Palatinate...
...honest effort and perseverance count for anything in this world, the Messrs. Lee and J. J. Shubert are just bound to get ahead...
...having made but a million or so out of this formula under the title of "Student Prince", the Messrs. Lee and J. J. Shubert probably sat right down and cried. But note the moral. Did they give up? No, sir! Those plucky boys put new clothes on the saw horse, and came right back with "Princess Flavia", another pleasing operetta, done in a bigger and better...