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Word: leger (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Honorable Elizabeth St. Leger Aid-worth, the only woman Freemason . . . was initiated into Masonry in Lodge No. 44 at Doneraile Court, County Cork, Ireland, in 1712. Intentionally or inadvertently, the young lady was in an annex of the lodge room while a degree was being conferred. On attempting to escape from the room she was discovered . . . After considerable discussion, the members decided that only one course was open to them. The fair culprit, with a high sense of honor, at once consented to pass through the impressive ceremonials she had already in part witnessed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Shriners & Secrets | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

...filly named Angelola in the big race, but Queen Elizabeth didn't give the royal entry a prayer. Said she: "I think I should back My Love." So did most of the 400,000 fans lining the track at Doncaster, England, for last week's St. Leger (rhymes with quaint ledger). My Love was the 7-to-4 favorite; the Aga Khan's mahogany three-year-old had already won the Epsom Derby and the French Grand Prix...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: 1776 & All That | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

...competing in the historic race, first run in 1776: Black Tarquin,* owned by the chairman of New York's Jockey Club, William Woodward. In the Derby, Black Tarquin had finished eighth, and most bettors figured that he lacked staying powers for the mile-and-three-quarters St. Leger. The American colt, ridden by Australian Jockey Edgar Britt, settled down well to the rear, made no move until the stretch. Then, with only two furlongs to go, he put on a brilliant burst of speed to win from Alycidon, an outsider, by a length and a half. In sixth place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: 1776 & All That | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

After that, Kootz's own local stable of U.S. painters could only irritate, not shock. Fernand Leger brought up the rear with one of his obsessive puzzles: three ropey girls tied in a Gordian knot. Venus de Milo was obviously as out of fashion as a pretty knee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Women | 9/15/1947 | See Source »

...lowans that there is more to art than Grant Wood ever dreamed of. Wrote Editor Don Berry of the Indianola Record Herald and Tribune (circ. 3,693): Such paintings could only come from the mentally unbalanced. (The paintings come from such old hands at modernism as Stuart Davis, Fernand Leger, Karl Zerbe and Salvador Dali...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Moderns in the Maize | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

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