Word: leon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile in Boston, Edward A. Filene had instituted plans for a peace award, similar to that of Mr. Bok, to be held in England, France, Italy. The prize will be $50,000. Leon Bourgeois, former President of the Council of the League of Nations, Senator de Jouvenel, editor of Le Matin; Tommaso Tittoni, President of the Italian Senate, and Professor Gilbert Murray are cooperating in the effort...
...averse to discussing the contacts of his fellow Olympians with himself. In this collection he describes in a manner highly anecdotal some 32 persons varying from Charles S. Chaplin and Sarah Bernhardt to Mark Twain, H. L. Mencken, James Larkin, Emma Goldman, Lord Curzon. Otto Kahn and Leon Trotzky he compares as "two great captains." His rule, he tells us, has been to take people he has "known intimately and like'd if not loved." Among his exceptions to this rule are Roosevelt, Wilson, Harding, whom he neither likes nor loves, and groups under the heading "Gargoyles...
...circumstances of the assassination were that she tried to see M. Leon Daudet, the Chief Editor of the paper. He would or could not see her and deputed M. Plateau, one of the leading Royalists, who was possessed of the business and organizing brains of both the paper and the Party, to interview her, which he did. After a brief conversation with her, M. Plateau rose and opened the door to let her out. As she passed him Mlle. Berthon shot him dead...
Henri, Charles H. Davis, Leon Kroll, Robert Spencer, John Folinsbee, Frederick Frieseke, Richard Miller, Jerome Myers, Bryson Burroughs, Henry Mc-Carter, Hugh Breckenridge, Hobart Nichols, Ernest Lawson, R. S. Meryman, Edward C. Volkert...
...Leon Bakst, Slav decorateur who sprang into fame ten years ago with his scenes and costumes for Scheherazade and the Russian Ballet, will come to America in January to lecture (in English) on new ideas of form and color. Bakst's most recent triumphs include the Nuits Ensorcelées (Enchanted Nights) for the Paris Opera. He devised the plot, painted the scenery and selected the Chopin incidental music. Then Jacques Rouche, the director of the Opera, asked him to prepare a new ballet for next Spring, Folle Jeunesse (Mad Youth...