Word: lee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second team, Sam White and Homer Peabody, both lettermen, are two notches above six feet and Lee Bird is one inch over the mark. Johnny Rigby drops down to five, eleven, and Bobby James is a bare five feet...
...Crooning Flour Salesman W. Lee O'Daniel was elected Governor of Texas in 1938 on a promise of $30-a-month pensions. Texans last week cast up accounts, noted that after a year's fiddling and finagling, "Pappy" O'Daniel had sliced the average $8-a-month old-age pension to about $6, had in some cases cut pensions as low as $1, was stalling on a tax bill to pay off his promises. Dissatisfaction flamed. O'Daniel's impeachment on a technicality was proposed, to permit calling of a tax session of the legislature...
When the literary history of his time comes to be written, Carl Sandburg may well be esteemed the luckiest of his Midwestern generation. Vachel Lindsay and Edgar Lee Masters had as great if not greater native talent; even Ben Hecht, whose desk was next to Sandburg's on the Chicago Daily News in the early '20s, seemed a more brilliant, sophisticated writer. Of them all, Sandburg, the immigrant's son, got the surest roothold in authentic U. S. tradition, and got it perhaps by the near accident of digging for the truth about Abraham Lincoln. "That...
...Against him across the Potomac was an army which could probably have taken Washington in the first weeks of the war, and a commander who outguessed and outfought every Union General. Sandburg on Lee: "Enfolded in the churchman and the Christian gentleman, Robert E. Lee was the ancient warrior who sprang forth and struck and cut and mangled as if to tear the guts and heart out of the enemy. . . ." The Union General George Brinton McClellan, who prudently chose to fight a war of attrition, never meeting Lee if he could help it without overwhelming superiority in manpower, caused Lincoln...
...Miss Carroll, it seems, has planned her whole life with the mathematical precision of an M. I. T. graduate, and must be convinced that Love is more important than a business career. Without too much trouble, however, she is brought around; and the result is, among other things, Carolyn Lee, another new child actress. Just as a footnote, Carolyn also learns about Love, and doesn't hesitate to point out such shortcomings as she finds in Madeleine's technique. The whole is a bright little comedy of an unimportant sort whose serious moments are dull and few, and whose subtle...