Word: leon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...boards with McAllister, popularly known as the "Flying Cop." A week ago McAllister sped by Chester Bowman, the national 60 yard champion, to win by a yard. The Crimson's giant speedster will start with Russell, the Cornell star, McAllister and Charles in the 60 yard race. Leon Murchison, Frank Hussey, Jackson Schoiz, and Ernest Morrill will leave the marks in the second heat. The two leaders of each dash will clash in the 50 yard finals. Murchison had not lost a race at the Mill rose games in four years, but he may not show his usual speed tomorrow...
...Shootings are the order of the day through all the Republic. We can cite a number of cases which prove our statements, but we shall refer to only one, that in the city of Leon in the State of Guanajuato, which, for cruel, barbarous, inhuman and unjust treatment, has sown the most profound discontent throughout the republic...
Architects Collens and Pelton went from Paris to Barcelona in a motor car last summer to get ideas for the new church. They studied how the Gothic architects threw stone into the sky like lace. It took them 21 days. At Le Mans, Carcassonne, Burgos, Leon, Valencia, Salamanca, Segovia and Toledo, they admired the Cathedrals, but they liked Chartres best...
...LEON BLUMENFELD...
...enraged such serious-minded Communists as Lenin and Trotsky by light-heartedly dragging off to his bed and board a lady undeniably fair but old enough to be his mother. The great Lenin, scandalized at his philandering in an hour of crisis, very nearly had the hero shot, and Leon Trotsky was especially loud in demanding his execution. Next day a mob of sailors from the Baltic Fleet sought out M. Trotsky, commanded his secretary to tell him to come out and be drubbed. No weakling, Leon Davidovich Trotsky (née Bronstein) rushed forth, stood with folded arms before...