Word: leon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hurl political dirt, libel and "inside dope" with such abandon that their passionate editors give at least the impression of sincerity. Yelped one such editor last week: "Shoot down like dogs the 160 Senators who want to suppress the Fascist Leagues!" Screamed another: "I take the responsibility for killing Leon Blum [Socialist Party Leader...
...need sleep more than anything else, hence get little active treatment. But an occasional alcoholic may be so thoroughly saturated that he will sink from deep coma into paralysis and death. Taking an interest in such deplorable guzzlers, last year two internes at Boston's City Hospital, Drs. Leon J. Robinson and Sydney Selesnick, began experimenting on specimens in their hospital's alcoholic ward. Their aim was to develop a gas which would oxidize alcohol in the blood, help throw it off in the breath, restore the patient to a normal state of intoxication...
...Revolution in complete ignorance of the cataclysm. Not until the year of grace 1934 did J. P. M. Prentice of Stowmarket, England, first observe the results of the convulsion, known to men as Nova Herculis. Over 10,000 observations of its progress have been made since, according to Leon Campbell instructor in Astronomy at the Observatory...
...Roseau, Minn., Leon Plant, 65, indignantly refusing State and Federal relief, retired to keep house in a big, snug butter churn with a tight-fitting trap door (see cut), which he inherited four years ago from a former employer...
...means popular in the book trade. Jack Strauss, Macy's bookman, is his good friend. But shrewd Mr. Doubleday wanted a test-case on the law, and Macy's supplied a perfect one. Sole issue was the constitutionality of the State law. For Macy's, Lawyer Leon Lauterstein argued that the department store was being deprived of property without due process of law. He said that the books belonged to Macy's, that Macy's had the inalienable right to sell its belongings at its own figures. Particularly stressed was the point that Macy...