Word: lees
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...terrible happened to the people in the Southern states when the northern blockade deprived them of salt. The 9,000,000 Confederates had used 300,000,000 Ibs. of salt a year, most of it in curing bacon. Humans were weakened through lack of salt in their diet, and Lee's horses suffered hoof and tongue diseases. Determinedly after the subject, Dr. Lonn spent five years studying the archives at Raleigh, Montgomery, Jackson, New Orleans, Atlanta...
...Cyrus Lee Sulzberger II, 32, is rawboned, curious, and has a tireless pair of reportorial legs. Starting grass-green in 1934, Harvardman Sulzberger declared he would not work for the Times until it asked him to. After a turn on the Pittsburgh Press, he joined the Washington staff of the United Press, became a labor specialist, later wrote a book, Sit-down with John L. Lewis. In 1938 he went abroad without a job, landed one with the London Evening Standard, finally got his call from the Times...
Gertrude Atherton, taffy-haired, well-rouged, rejuvenated novelist (The Black Oxen, The House of Lee), celebrated her 87th birthday by announcing the completion of her 41st book, Golden Gate Land, a 100,000-word history of her native northern California. She also delivered some birthday thoughts, called the Germans a "nation of fools," declared they should be shown "no mercy." Of the Japanese, she remarked: "Barbarians-they don't belong on this planet...
...wonderful specimen of stalwart youth, tall, broad-shouldered, fair-haired, blue-eyed, with an irresistible capacity for laughter. ... Of course a young man like that landing in the midst of Boston society played havoc with the fair sex. They fell before him like ninepins." Handsome Cotty entered Lee, Higginson & Co., brokers, as a runner and clerk. Life among the trust funds soon bored him. He visited the famed, silver-tongued rector of Boston's fashionable Trinity Episcopal Church, Phillips Brooks. Their conversation...
...distinction of Lee's Lieutenants is its clarity. Dr. Freeman has written some of the most lucid accounts of military action in U.S. literature. Only the Civil War generals themselves have surpassed him. Readers baffled by technical military language can follow his descriptions of complex engagements without trouble. In the process they will become acquainted with (if they never get to know well) some friendly, simple, good-hearted and courageous officers and gentlemen...