Word: leon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...November, 1493, that Columbus sighted Porto Rico and sailed on. A year later one of his seamen returned. The man was Ponce de Leon, an old skeptic who thought it doubtful that the best of life was yet to be if digestion was to become long and wind short. Ponce found a friend in Chief Aquebana and a fountain of wealth in the mountain gold mines. Later Ponce was expelled from the island, but the Spanish conquistadores, after standing silent a moment on a peak in Darien, made their way to Porto Rico and there was no withstanding their swords...
With two companions Leon Trotsky put out in a motorboat from Prinkipo. his island exile home near Istanbul, for a fishing trip. In the Sea of Marmora a squall wrecked the boat on rocky Dog Island, where thousands of Constantinople curs used to be sent to starve. Another fishing party rescued Trotsky & friends...
...Meekison '35, G. W. Meyer '35, E. V. Newman '35, L. F. Peck 4G., F. G. Poeter 2L., R. M. Powell '35, R. K. Pratt '34, D. F. Rogers '34, I. S. Rosenblatt 1L., P. H. Russell 3L., J. F. Russell '33, W. A. Russell 3L., Leon Ryack '35, T. A. Robinson '34, Kane Semonian '33, A. B. Sullivan '34, N. L. Tenney '35, H. M. Violi '35, Leslie Williams '33, and G. F. Wissenbach...
...fire which damaged the Eden Musee,- famed waxworks at Coney Island (N. Y.), funpark, figures of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, James John Walker, Leon Trotsky, John Joseph Pershing, Gaius Julius Caesar, Decimus Junius Brutus, Jean Paul Marat & tub, Henry VIII, Mr. & Mrs. Tom Thumb were melted out of existence. Others who suffered: George Washington (broken nose), Booker Taliaferro Washington (complexion blackened), Charlotte Corday (loss of eyes), Marie Antoinette (decapitated). A fireman was injured, a dog shot, a cat burned to death. Rescued were Watchman Conrad Golly and eight Japanese billiardists...
...Leon Trotsky, who was reported about to move to Germany from the Island of Prinkipo, near Istanbul, where he has resided since November 1929, took a new two-year lease on a villa on the island. His only known source of income: royalties from his books, said to be "tremendous" in Europe...