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Word: leon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hand in hand up the long, steep stairs to Paris' Sacré Coeur. They knocked at a door which was opened by a strange, shabby old man with a walrus mustache. Young Protestant Jacques Maritain and his Jewish wife Rai'ssa had come to old Roman Catholic Leon Bloy for help. The Maritains were heavyhearted with questions, and they believed that Bloy, the outcast scourge of complacent Christianity (TIME, April 14, 1947), might have some answers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Ultra-Modernist | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

...their sparkle, and the book every last shred of its wit. Nor could Bambi Linn (Carousel), however pleasing a dancer, challenge the lustrous memory of the late Marilyn Miller. And though in Willie Howard Sally has a star, it seldom lets him shine. In the role originally played by Leon Errol, Howard talks twaddle that is too refined. Only here & there can he muscle out of the show-with some triumphantly low-down touch, or by singing variations on Look for the Silver Lining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Musical in Manhattan, May 17, 1948 | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

Eastman Birkett 1L was elected chairman and Leon Waks 1L vice-chairman of the local AVC as the moderate faction swept all its candidates into office...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Birkett Wins AVC Election Contest | 5/6/1948 | See Source »

...front is marked only by a mortar and pestle. Hanging over the door is a signboard with the number 1360, which some think is the date of construction. But Billings and Stover, though one of the oldest stores in the Square, makes no pretense of antedating Ponce de Leon. His over-sought youth-restorative is one drug they still don't have in stock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Billings and Stover: Leeches, Bleaches, and Drugs | 4/21/1948 | See Source »

Please Rescue. At Pittsburgh, the labor and liberal leaders who run the Americans for Democratic Action (Leon Henderson, Walter Reuther, Jim Carey, David Dubinsky, et al.) could not bring themselves to a flat endorsement of Candidate Truman, but they let him down with some sugary words ("We appreciate his brave rearguard action in defense of our social and labor legislation"). They settled on a statement which said, in effect: "Please, General Eisenhower, rescue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Sign of a Dilemma | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

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