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Word: leona (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Leonce and Leona," a satire on romanticism, will be presented by the German Club in Agassiz, Hall on Saturday evening at 8.30 o'clock. The play a being given in conjunction with the Radcliffe German Club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Leonce and Leona" Will Be Presented by German Club | 5/22/1936 | See Source »

...play of 21-year-old Jessie Anderson saved the British from open defeat. All-even in the foursomes and leading by one match in the singles, the U. S. needed only a tie in the last singles match for a clean-cut victory. This seemed assured when Mrs. Leona Cheney, all square with Miss Anderson on the 18th green, played her approach shot to within an inch of the cup. Miss Anderson,, however, thoroughly at home in the Scottish mist, laid down a putt which slithered 20 ft. across the soaked green, plopped straight into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Golf in a Mist | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

...Iowa Hill, Calif., because Wilbur Randall planned to put a frisky frog under the school bell, then twisted the arm of a younger pupil who threatened to tattle, Teacher Leona George, 63, marched down the aisle, separated her quarreling charges. From a brief scuffle Wilbur Randall emerged with both his eyes blacked. Afterward he told his mother, a school trustee, that Teacher George had struck him with the bell. Teacher George was haled before the district attorney and the county superintendent of schools. She insisted that Wilbur's wound was accidental, but grimly admitted to having once whipped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EDUCATION: Unspared Rods | 4/27/1936 | See Source »

...most thrilling match the Women's National golf Championship ever knew, Mrs. Opal S. Hill of Kansas City today advanced to the tourney semi finals y eliminating Mrs. Leona D. Cheney of San Gabriel, Calif...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MRS. HILL IN SEMIS | 10/5/1934 | See Source »

...made her a "Lady of the Flag." Walking through Manhattan's Central Park, Nursemaid Ruth Volz found "a string of beads," put them on. Few days later her husband noticed that they had an emerald clasp, rightly guessed that they were the $70,000 pearl necklace lost by Leona Jane Ettlinger while walking with her father, Sportsman John Daniel Hertz, founder of Yellow Cab Co. (TIME, Dec. 18). Mrs. Volz returned the pearls, collected $5,000 reward, returned to her job as nursemaid with a Park Avenue family. Exasperated because friends daily distracted Mrs. Volz with congratulatory visits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 25, 1933 | 12/25/1933 | See Source »

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