Word: lee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years a legend has grown up that Muñoz was a spectacular bohemian in the turbulent Greenwich Village of the '20s. The fact is that he only lived in the Village a few months. Through much of his New York life he and his young wife -Muna Lee, another young poet-were bourgeois suburbanites...
...Mistin-guett ("Continues to display her gams . . . has refused to adopt the new look"), Alice Roosevelt Longworth ("Doesn't have the time to bother about such things"), Signora Rita Togliatti ("Not born with good taste"), Cinemactress Greer Garson ("Draperies and dresses are not the same thing"), Gypsy Rose Lee ("Looks better in her G-string...
...been worn smooth from much handling; it is the classic, rather melancholy picture of the American literary man neglected by his time. It is also traditional and mildly touching, and it presents an image of the ideal man of letters just as Douglas Southall Freeman's R. E. Lee projects the ideal military man. Among U.S. academicians, it is cherished as the schoolboy once cherished Parson Weems's Life of Washington...
...Lee Durocher, suspended from baseball for the second time Friday by Commissioner Albert B. Chandler after an incident at the Polo Grounds was hear toned by the support of many fans who said they witnessed the affair and declared Durocher was blameless. One fan even said he "accidentally kicked and tripped over" Fred Boyson. Boyson, a 22-year old Brooklyn fan, charged that Durocher hit him from behind, knocked him to the ground and scuffed him, after the Giant's 15 to 2 loss to the Dodgers Thursday...
...those four wins were registered over such nonentities in the rowing world as Washington and Lee, Rollins College (where you can major in hunting and fishing), Florida Southern, and Tampa University, which reduces the Terriers to a status something short of imposing...