Word: leonarde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have some difficulty in telling their work apart. He it was who interested Mme Zak in his friend's paintings, saw her proudly through a typical Leicester Galleries opening last June, attended by everybody from hatchet-faced Lady Oxford to the Baroness d'Erlanger and Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill. All the Eisendieck pictures were sold within a week...
Once publisher of the newspaper trade journal Fourth Estate, organizer and first president of Columbia Broadcasting System, 51-year-old Harry Newman is best known to newspapermen as the clever promotion expert who undertook in 1927 to make America reindeer-meat conscious, so that rich Arthur & Leonard Baldwin could realize profits on their $6,000,000 reindeer business in Alaska. Mr. Newman sold many a leading newspaper his Christmas circulation promotion stunt which had as its climax the arrival of Santa Claus on local streets in a jingling sleigh drawn by a reindeer team. With a publicist's acumen...
...said an unnecessary maneuver, no matter how brilliant, was criminal), in Washington, in Clausewitz, in General Hagood, in Colonel Lawrence, who regretted a victorious battle because he knew the enemy would have surrendered in a few days without one. But the militaristic point of view (exemplars: Foch, Weygand, Leonard Wood) leads to situations like the Dreyfus case; to the preservation of archaic customs like dueling in the German army; to the inflexible employment of traditional tactics when new situations have made them dangerous, such as the use of cavalry early in the World...
...Wenatchee, Wash., Reporter Lynn Leonard signed up subscribers to a fund for the benefit of "the widow of the Unknown Soldier." He had difficulty in persuading several not to force cash upon him at once...
Since the middle of this waning football season, Californians have suspected that Coach Leonard ("Stub") Allison had a great football team at the University of California. Gauge of the fact was that California used only 14 plays, most of them power plays, yet so well executed and so well mixed by pot-bellied Quarterback John Meek that they remained effective. Key man of the California team is six-foot four-inch All-America Centre Bob Herwig, who snaps the ball unerringly, runs fast interference, and backs up the line on defense. Most likely California All-America this year is Halfback...