Word: leon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aged Uncle Elie and his aging nephew Leon lived together in a rented Paris house in a style all their own. Both were Breton noblemen, but Elie looked like a tramp, his rags held together with string, and Leon looked like a hired man. Uncle Elie and Leon had lived together for 40 years, ever since they had given up the attempt to get ahead in the world. As a young man Leon had excelled at writing Latin verse, had a facile talent for music and painting, had once invented an apparatus for enlarging photographs, but the only thing...
...Leon was an ineffectual innocent, but Uncle Elie was bad. From sheer stubborn laziness he had given up a promising career. When Leon's mother (with whom he boarded as long as she lived), had moved her establishment, Uncle Elie had stopped going to his lectures at the Ecole des Sciences Politiques, because it would have meant spending an hour a day in the bus. He had effectively broken up Leon's prospective marriage by writing an anonymous letter falsely accusing Leon of being the father of several illegitimate children. When he went to see the family lawyer...
Socialist leader Leon Blum joyfully said that the Left Wingers "shook the Radical plum tree until Laval fell out." In judging the conduct of Laval during past months it appears that he never was really up in that plum tree. He was merely hiding behind...
...Resign!" Hysteria mounted until a reference to "my country" by the Premier subjected him to a torrent of demands that he speak instead of "our country." This he thereafter did with evident galling bitterness of soul. In their element were the forces of French antiFascism, led by millionaire Socialist Leon Blum. "Mr. Premier' he crushingly observed, "I am surprised, nay I am amazed, to see that you are still 'Mr. Premier.' There are some mistakes which a public man does not have the right to survive...
...Bampton, Kathryn Meisle and Marion Telva, who has been badly missed since she left the Metropolitan in 1931. Outstanding tenors: Lauritz Melchior, Paul Althouse, Giovanni Martinelli. Charles Hackett. Nino Martini. The baritones: Lawrence Tibbett, John Charles Thomas, Friedrich Schorr, Richard Bonelli. The bassos: Ezio Pinza, Ludwig Hofmann, Emanuel List, Leon Rothier...