Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...remaining history of Lever Bros., after the establishment of Port Sunlight, is largely the history of expansion through branches. Mr. Lever globe-trotted all over the world. Wherever he traveled he left behind him, in strategic spots, a Lever Bros, branch or a Lever Bros, subsidiary. France, Germany, Switzerland, Canada, the U. S.?even China was not too far distant. In 1906 he tried to arrange a consolidation of leading British soapmakers, but the late great Lord Northcliffe raised such an antitrust turmoil that the project was abandoned. Thereupon Mr. Lever sued Lord Northcliffe and other
...many notes at once. That and the "drone," a bell-ended pipe attached to the bag which sounds an uninterrupted bass note, are the main characteristics of the bagpipe. It has a limited range of notes, is very difficult to play. The bag is held under the piper's left arm, the blowpipe which feeds the bag is held in his mouth, his fingers play along the "chaunter," the melody pipe punctuated with lateral holes. The reeds point skyward...
...Trans-Mississippi in 1927.) At this year's Open he qualified with the leaders, later putted disastrously to early elimination. Before Champion Jones's breakfast had properly settled, young John Goodman had won three holes. Jones caught him at the 12th, lost him again at the 14th, left the tournament i down. "I'm proud," said young John Goodman, "but I'm sorry." Some people thought it was a "good thing for the game." Others thought an 18-hole match was unfair, especially when young John Goodman lost his next match, 2 and 1, to unknown 18-year-old William...
...forests on Mt. Taylor, 11,289-ft. extinct volcano on the Continental Divide, midway between Albuquerque and Gallup, what seemed small patches of snow. He flew low. In the sunlight, midst trees, gleamed pieces of duralumin. In Pilot Rice's words: "Then we saw the left wing of the plane where it had been cut off by striking a tree. The wing was turned upside down and we could read the [license] numbers 9649. The balance of the plane we saw about 100 yards beyond this point. The plane had caught fire. . . the cabin was in ashes...
...John Callahan actually scaled the 20-ft. wall of Manhattan's Tombs with tenacious hands and feet. Two keepers conducting one Dr. Theodore Gallaudet to the same bleak prison were magnificently wined-dined by their prisoner en route. In their stupor he left the restaurant on a pretext, went to Havana and Paris where his family joined him, lived happily and immune thereafter...