Word: lees
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Attlee and Bevin, most of the Cabinet appeared in evening dress. But leftist Health Minister Aneurin Bevan inevitably went in a sack suit, his leftist-M.P. wife Jennie Lee in her usual red tweed coat and lizard-skin shoes. Outside the royal box there were only two tiaras. And Covent Garden's scarlet-&-gold opulence had been restored mostly by mere elbow grease. Explained the manager: "Very little new paint has been used, and then only in cases where it was necessary for cleanliness. . . . There is hardly a spot of new gilt anywhere in the theater...
Early Buzzards. In Norwood, Ohio, within 24 hours after Lee Dunn Jr. confessed to strangling his wife, police got five phone inquiries about renting the strangler's house...
...receive exactly half of that amount, $3,375," Miss Rice informed me. "The other half goes to my publisher, who, like all first-edition publishers today, takes 50% of all authors' reprint royalties. And, of course, I pay 10% to my agent, thereby netting 40% for myself." Miss Lee Wright, editor of Simon & Schuster's Inner Sanctum Mysteries, Miss Rice's first-edition publishers, confirmed this emphatically over the telephone tonight. "Craig has just the same sort of contract as any other writer," said Miss Wright. "We take 50% of her reprint royalties...
...Camp Lee...
...gloomy to pay him the proper last respects. Here is Raphael Semmes, dashing captain of the Alabama (which was sunk by the Kearsarge in one of the war's great naval fights), who for a few days raised Richmond's flagging spirits. Here is General Robert E. Lee, besieged by Southern belles who had been criticized for going to dances in wartime. Said Lee: "Go, my dears, and look your prettiest...