Word: leese
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yeats went to France and "talked of marriage" to Maud Gonne, but it was clear that Maud was "far more interested in securing a passport to Ireland to work for the prisoners." He proposed then, and then again, to her exquisite daughter Iseult. H. decided, at length, to marry his...
* The need for tartaric acid is serious for munitions, baking powder, synthetic silk, photographic materials, candy. The U.S. requires at least 15,000,000 Ib. annually. Foreign sources of argols and lees (crusts and dregs) of winery wastes are cut off.
It's about time, however, that someone came out and gave Mildred her due. Downbeat and Metronome give her a kind word now and then, taking her for granted most of the time. The more csoteric jazz magazines ignore her completely. As a result, the rising generation of jazz lovers...
"Good Drive!" The President rode between two giant assembly lines, where a hundred General Lees-the new all-welded medium tank-were abuilding. He waved to 5,000 astounded workmen, who lined up in a solid wall to greet him. On the testing ground, he watched 50 tanks roar through...
At 64, feeling her creative power had dried up, she had her ovaries stimulated by X-ray and promoted rejuvenation in a novel, Black Oxen (1923). Whatever the source of her second vigor, yellow-haired, red-nailed Octogenarian Atherton has injected a good deal of it into The House of...