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Word: lee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...characters all spring vividly to life, led by June Walker who, though brunette by birth and nature, offers a perfect performance as the cooing, wide-eyed, traveling siren, Lorelei Lee. Edna Hibbard's saucy nose, jaunty figure and coon-shouting voice add immensely to the personality of Lorelei's hard-boiled girlfriend, Dorothy, upon whose caustic nature has been fathered the echo: "Brunettes prefer gentlemen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Oct. 11, 1926 | 10/11/1926 | See Source »

...Lorelei Lee, as nearly every one knows, is the long-suffering little murderess from Arkansas whom a Mr. Gus Eisman, Chicagoan in the button profession, found in Holly-wood and "educated." Her schoolroom is a suite at the Ritz, her text the Eisman checkbook. The play opens on shipboard, with Lorelei out-golddigging a pair of antique Britishers, what time she snares Henry Spoffard, a Presbyterian playboy from Philadelphia with millions to be diverted from moral uplift to Mr. Cartier's jewelry store. She winds up in Manhattan having a three-day debut party with boys from the Racquet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Oct. 11, 1926 | 10/11/1926 | See Source »

Dooley and Lee in Dead Heat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON HARRIERS CRUSH CRUSADERS | 10/9/1926 | See Source »

...Freshmen also made a good showing yesterday afternoon as W. G. Dooley '30 and G. B. Lee '30 sprinted across at the finish in a dead heat. Three Crusader first year men trailed them, but the Freshmen placed four out of the next five and won the meet 26 to 32. The time, 18 minutes and 23 seconds for a three and a half mile course, guarantees an exceptionally strong Freshman team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON HARRIERS CRUSH CRUSADERS | 10/9/1926 | See Source »

Princeton 21, Washington and Lee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOW JOE MADE THE LITTLE WOMAN UNHAPPY AND WHY | 10/9/1926 | See Source »

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