Word: leon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sour Grape. The Spanish expression of pique, chagrin and defiance consisted in the recall to Madrid of Count Quinones de Leon, whose place upon the League Council was taken by one Don Luis Quer Boule, a mere youth, an underling culled from the Spanish Legation at Berne...
...recitation was to show that Henry Sweet, Negro accused of murder, was the unconscious victim of ancient racial inheritances, that when he knelt before a window in his brother's house and fired he had done it in utterance of primitive antipathies. A bullet had pierced fatally one Leon E. Breiner, a citizen seated in his rocking chair at his home across the street, chatting and smoking his pine, peacefully white...
Other speakers will be Professor Wilbur Urban, President of the American Philosophical Association, on "Undergraduate Values"; Professor Leon B. Richardson, author of "A Study of the Liberal College", on "Curriculum Reform"; and Lewis Fox, President of the National Student Federation of America, on "Relations between the Federation and the Collegiate Press...
...Huntington, W. Va, Lawrence Trevor Grimm, of Los Angeles, Cal., Foster Knight, of Dedham, Jack Burton Nason, of Erie, Pa., Henry Harrison Proctor, of Boston, Joseph Earle Stevens Jr., of Tuxedo Park, N. Y., Walter Sheldon, Tower Jr., of Maplewood, N. F., John Garnett Whitham Jr., Lawrence, George Leon Weil Jr., of New York City...
...some one has said, they satisfy. Passing the newsstand, if your appetite for fiction is not to be trifled with by a mere magazine, do you pore over cryptic titles, flashy jackets, alluring blurbs? Hardly ever. Briskly, confidently, you seize an Oppenheim or a Dell, a Harry Leon Wilson, Sabatini, Irvin Cobb, Wallace Irwin, Arthur Train?not ham and eggs but just as reliable. A lot of fiction writers remain standard commodities whether you carry them out of the Gopher (Wyo.) Elite Drug Store or Brentano...