Word: leon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...such topics as exploration in the Antarctic, the aftermath of the stock market crash, and dictatorship in European policies were asked for last year: in the fact quiz, the candidates had to identify and bring out the part played in current news of such figures as Mme. Curie, Leon Daudet, and Ortiz Rubio as well as to answer briefly such questions as, "Who won the Pulitzer Novel Prize for 1928-29?" and "Who is governor-general of the Philippines?" Concise political summaries, on subjects such as the part played by the United States in current Russo-Chinese difficulties and Ghandi...
...Last week in Manhattan a group of writers (Theodore Dreiser, Harry Elmer Barnes, Ben Hecht, Booth Tarkington, Edgar Lee Masters, John Cowper Powys, Tiffany Thayer, Harry Leon Wilson), formed a Fortean Society to create wider interest in the work of Charles Fort, author of The Book of the Damned, New Lands (out of print), Lo! (Claude Kendall, Publisher). For 26 years Author Fort has collected phenomena which Science has been unable to explain. He & his friends believe that modern knowledge must be freed of the prejudices of Science...
...first time, partly because of the unnecessary subplot involving Lilyan Tashman as an adventuress who tries to steal $50.000 from Mr. Haddock, and precocious Mitzi Green, who frustrates the conspiracy. It is funny when the insane hilarity of Author Stewart is permitted to come to the surface: Mr. Haddock (Leon Errol) wrestling with a brakeman in an empty car; Mrs. Haddock (Zazu Pitts) overcome with seasickness induced by autosuggestion while the boat is still at the dock; both of them indulging in polite social chatter with a street-cleaner to whom they have been introduced by a taxidriver...
...Luxembourg Museum in Paris lent portraits of lovely ladies for the open show. Artists represented ranged from early Romantic Théodore Géricault. Courbet, Cabanel to ultramodern Marie Laurencin and Jean Lurçat Lovely ladies painted included the Duchess of Rutland Russian Dancer Ida Rubenstein (by Leon Bakst) and Maud Dale thingly disguised as Mme D. by Jean...
...Leon F. Rains, first vice president of Columbia Steel Corp., Pacific Coast unit of United States Steel Corp., resigned to succeed the late Addison H. Beale as president of A. M. Byers Co., iron-pipe specialists...