Word: lemuel
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...Lemuel Gulliver, a great traveler, once came upon a nation of horses called Houyhnhnms (pronounced, with a whinny, who-in-ums), who were gifted with sound reason and a noble spirit, and ruled benevolently over an unprepossessing tribe of humans called yahoos. A British stable owner named Frank Coton felt he had a near-Houyhnhnm in his eight-year-old gelding, Black Diamond. One day last week, he led Black Diamond clopping into a Nottingham movie theater (which had been cleared of yahoos); the horse, perspiring heavily, watched as a newsreel of 1952's Grand National Steeplechase...
Nominated by President Truman to be Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps: Lieut. General Lemuel Cornick Shepherd...
Born: February 10, 1896, in Norfolk, Va., only son (two sisters) of Lemuel C. Shepherd, a physician. His mother was Emma Lucretia Cartwright of Nantucket...
Family: Married Dec. 30, 1922 to Virginia Tunstall Driver, a strikingly handsome woman. Three children: two sons, Lemuel III, 26, and Wilson, 23, both Marine lieutenants, and both married this year to naval officers' daughters. One daughter, Virginia, 22, also married this year, to a Marine captain her father's aide...
...girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl back--is saved by a play within a play. Director John C. Wilson has combined the best scenes from "The Taming of the Shrew" with Porter's music and some exciting choreography by Hanya Holm to make a highly entertaining show. Lemuel Ayers' costumes and settings are not only magnificent but give the production a light pastel touch which keeps it from being the usually garish musical comedy...