Word: leon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Second Game. The red thatch of Grover Cleveland Alexander is streaked with white, lines crease his broad face. In the world series of 1915 he pitched for Philadelphia. This year, cast adrift by Chicago for his roistering ways, he has brought the gospel of Ponce de Leon to St. Louis. He grew stronger as the afternoon wore on. In the third inning his teammates began to hit Shocker, the Yankee pitcher. Score: St. Louis, 6; New York...
...chosen from the third year class are: Lawrence Soule Apsey '24 of Cambridge; Herbert Alvin Berman '24 of Cambridge; Robert Garlock of Bloomfield N. J; Leon Lipschitz of New York City; Milton Rosenkranz of Union City, N. J., and Joshua Willard '24 of Minneapolis, Minn. From the second year men, those picked are: Joseph Benjamin Brennan of Savannah, Ga.; Erwin Nathaniel Griswold of Cleveland, Ohio; Moses Samuel Huberman '23 of Portland, Me.; Nathan Leopard Jacobs of Bayonne, N. J.; Louis Leventhal Joffe of Baltimore, Md.; Carlisle Elwood Mau of Provo, Utab; William Mitchell of Washington, D. C., James Benjamin Powell...
...London Daily Express carried a lurid "scoop" last week purporting to describe how a group of mutinous artillery officers held up His Majesty's car at Del Leon and forced him to promise to support their cause. Arrived at Madrid, Alfonso was declared to have repeated his conversation with the mutineers to Dictator Premier Primo de Rivera, who allegedly remarked: "If your Majesty yields to the officers, I will proclaim a republic with myself as President...
...Death came to Thomas Moran, painter. It found him in his 90th year in Santa Barbara. He was the last of four senior Morans illustrious in U. S. art: Edward, Thomas, Peter, and Mary Nimmo Moran, the Scotch painter-etcher who married her teacher, Thomas. There survive Leon and Percy Moran, sons of Edward...
After a few hours of futile steaming the Pergamos was overtaken by the battleship Leon. Dictator Pangalos, formally arrested, was held in custody, informed that General Kondylis had "recalled" Admiral Koundouriotis to the Presidency of the Hellenic Republic. Next day, Athens crowds roared delight, mocked their one-time hero...