Word: lenoir
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...profession, you will find those people in it for purely selfish motives. All the morticians I know are very sincere, too conscientious, and are giving the best part of their lives to making death a little less the grim, horrible thing that it is. NANCY ALEXANDER Lenoir...
...Essex class carriers, now the first line craft of the U.S. fleets. But the tin-hatted, horn-handed men who built the Midway are accustomed to superlatives. They have long bragged that: 1) Newport News is the biggest U.S. shipyard; 2) its sharp-eyed, terrier-like boss, Homer Lenoir Ferguson, 72, is by all odds the best builder of warships in the U.S., if not in the world...
...Buffalo Bill's band, and had been one of the founders of New York's Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians. Dorothy's two sisters gave up their careers for marriage, and her trumpeter brother ended up as a professor of music in Lenoir, N.C. Her own big break came in 1939 when Soprano Grace Moore heard her, and sent her to Italy to study with famed Tenor Beniamino Gigli's teacher. Despite the war, Dorothy wanted to stay in Naples, but her worried family managed to get the U.S. consul to have...
Pleased at having plucked this prize away from Lehman Bros, and Blyth & Co., who bid too low, Tri-Continental announced that its syndicate would keep a third of the shares, sell the rest. Rumor was that Newport News's President Homer Lenoir Ferguson, Annapolis man and head of the firm for 25 years, would step up to board chairman, boss the show from there, while his handsome Vice President Roger Williams, former Navy line officer, would take over as president...
...fall day in 1892, a raw 22-year-old named Blanford Barnard Dougherty came down out of the mountains of western North Carolina to the little town of Lenoir. Ahorse and by shanks' mare, he had traveled all the stormy night from Boone, 25 miles away. He was going to college at Wake Forest, N. C. At Lenoir, young Dougherty cloppered on to a train, the first he ever did see. Finding the second-class car full, he made himself comfortable in first class. When the conductor tried to put him back in second class, the sharp-witted hillbilly...