Word: leon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Leon Bourgeois (French...
While rumors of peasant revolts were gurgitating in the Russian provinces, Leon Trotzky, brother-in-law of the late Lenin and Supreme War Lord of the Red Army, was being hauled over the coals by certain of his brother "Bolshecrats...
...paper of the tax figures of individuals chosen at random from long lists of names published. Thus, the Baltimore Post's alleged offense was in making known the payments of five separate citizens, to wit, the Messrs. Daniel Willard (railroad man), Waldo Newcomer (capitalist), and J. Cookman Boyd, Leon C. Coblenz, Frank A. Furst (small tax-payers). None of the individuals had protested their treatment by the papers to the Government...
...Ponce de Leon had his filng in search of the isle of Bimini. In modern times science promises synthetic youth. But rejuvenation by the academic method seems the more popular way. Even Harvard has its "Old Dog" basking anew in the sunlight of knowledge and the shadow of an incognito. If retired bond salesmen and cotton merchants should take any wholesale notion to imitate these examples, the "Freshman Red Book" may come to look like an advertising handbook for Colgate's Shaving Cream...
...Thompson, himself, would have been delighted with Louis Leon Hall's interpretation of kindly old Uncle Josh. As Happy Jack, Mr. Nedell chalked up another hit; but he had to work at top pitch to keep up with Olive Blakeney, who, as Rickety Anne, kept things "movin'" on the farm. John Collier, an ex 47 Workshop man, starred as "my boy Reub". The whole company, indeed, from the Stage Manager and Master Mechanic to the Director, Sam Godfrey, himself, were on the boards and they made the audience "glad...