Word: leon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Miners and textile workers cut all telephone wires and cables out of Manresa, then seized thousands of pounds of dynamite from the Iberian Potash Works. Up and down the valley spread the revolution. Soviet flags went up over Berga, Alto, Gironella, Puigreig, Salient, Cardona. Excited crowds rallied to Leon Trotsky's old slogan: "EUROPE IS BURNING AT BOTH ENDS!!" Rich farmers and mill owners were kidnapped. Peasants were threatened with death...
Premier Pierre Laval of France showed friends a copy of TIME with its story about him as "man of the year" (TIME, Jan. 4). When he proudly pointed out the observation that his surname spells itself backward, Leon Noel, new head of the Sûreté Générale, cried: "I'll double you. Chief...
...million souls throughout the world, is held by the ascetic, bearded, polylingual Greek Priest Demetrios Maniatis who was elected by a majority of his brother metropolitans and invested as Photios II three autumns ago (TIME, Oct. 28, 1929). Born on Prinkipo Island near Constantinople (where now is exiled Red Leon Trotsky), Photios II was educated in Athens and Germany. He was consecrated as bishop in 1914, becoming Metropolitan of Philadelphia (Asia Minor) ten years later, then Metropolitan of Derkos...
...twins doubted the California organization's favorable judgment of their mentality, the Institute for Juvenile Re-search in Chicago substantiated the assurance. Louis Leon Thurstone and Richard L. Jenkins, who compiled the Chicago institute's facts, went further in destroying old taunts. Twins of the same sex are fully as bright as twins of opposite sexes...
...Dancer Nijinsky, a sloe-eyed young man with supple joints and tremendous thighs, headed the Serge Diaghilev Russian Ballet in its triumphal tour of Paris, London, Berlin, New York. It was the first time that theatregoers had seen a stage decorated by artists of the first rank: Derain. Picasso, Leon Bakst. Ladies in panniered hobble-skirts went into ecstasies over Nijinsky's performance of the Firebird, the Blue Bird, the Slave in Scheherazade, L'Apres-Midi d'un Faune. It was Vaslav Nijinsky who staged and introduced to the world Stravinsky's great Sacre du Printemps...