Word: leon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most wholesome and the most hygienic of beverages." Into many a language will the document be translated by Office International du Vin, an anti-prohibitionist organization which claims it is "a sincere friend of temperance and a bitter enemy of alcoholism." Head of the "temperance" movement is Dr. Leon Douarch. Said he, last week: "We attempt no defense of hare liquor, but wine containing 10% of alcohol moderately and conservatively consumed, particularly at mealtime, can have no noxious effects In addition to being a stimulant, it is an excellent aliment for the manual as well as the intellectua worker...
...Case. A Jew, one Leon Beron. was found murdered and robbed on Clapham Common. The letter S was roughly carved on his cheeks. A black-and-red silk handkerchief, a paper bag from Whitechapel, some stab marks evidently made by a tall, strong, left-handed man were the clews. Sleuth Wrensley tracked and arrested Notorious Murderer "Steinie" Morrison...
...Guiseppe Danise and Leon Rothier will be summer residents of Glencoe...
...with a virgin. He is a Don Juan with a Russian soul. He has a Conscience that must burble out in a confession of his imposture to the first passing peasant. After a glorious triumph on the head of that imposture (presentation to the "future" Queen of France of Leon Daudet's royalists); after a royal hunt in which he stabs the stag and thrills all the ladies, Molinoff is discovered in his cook capacity by Françoise's family. A fatalist giving a dark, hollow laugh at his fate, Molinoff trundles off down the road, his back dwindling...
...Constantinople last week, the man who had suffered most from "Steel Man" Stalin was feverishly explaining how his pure Communist conscience permitted him to write articles for the capitalistic press of Europe and the U. S., and to receive tainted capitalistic gold for the same. Exile Leon Trotsky wrote...