Word: leon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...calendar reform and admitted, conversationally, to two carnal thoughts a year "at the most," Fowler knew he had his man. He went to a pet shop and procured "a nasty-tempered fugitive from an organ-grinder's beat," though in his columns Fowler called the monkey "Ponce de Leon." The operation went off with a burst of flashbulbs and headlines. Unfortunately, Mr. Bacon looked ten years older after his rejuvenation:"One result of the operation was the complete riddance of his carnal thoughts. He retired to a monastery, and finally died there while reading a Latin version...
...Faculty Committee to Send Teachers to Africa will resolve many of the remaining problems of the project. The Committee will reconvene next week, according to Leon D. Bramson, instructor in Social Relations...
Rosenberg excavates two late eighteenth century novels, Lewis' The Monk and Godwin's St. Leon, which portray the isolated Jew as black magician, and traces their lineage from Cartaphilus to DuMaurier's Svengali. In Trilby "the myths of Judas and of Cartaphilus met in the figure of a Victorian bogey-hypnotist...
...public eye, I am aware that I am fair game, and if I have two flacks the public should know about it. The fact is, however, that only one of the flacks your reporter noticed in my apartment is my own. The other was lent to me by Dr. Leon Page of Coolidge, Ariz. My own flack had unfortunately broken down and the good doctor was kind enough to allow me to use his until mine was repaired. Dr. Page's flack is a much better one than my own, having been made in Leipzig by Gustav Schmidt...
...began to break free from tradition in 1921, when he became an instructor in theory at the Cleveland Institute, where he worked under Ernest Bloch. Since then, Composer Sessions, now teaching at Princeton, has sent forth from his classroom some of the most promising names in U.S. music-Leon Kirchner, David Diamond, Andrew Imbrie, Milton Babbitt...