Word: leonarde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Discovering that she was going to give birth before she could travel from her house to Chicago's Maternity Center, Mrs. Leonard Nelson telephoned there for advice. With the telephone receiver clutched to her ear. she then proceeded to do precisely what the alert obstetrician at the other end of the line told her to do. After eight minutes of this Mrs. Nelson cried that she had borne a son and started to hang up. A neighbor, however, snatched the receiver, yelled over the phone: "She's going to have a twin." The doctor: "Let me talk...
...formed Publishers Service Co. and began to job-lot sets of Dickens and Mark Twain to other publishers who passed them on to readers at cost. Smelling profits, 36-year-old Leonard Davidow chucked his job as publishers' wholesaler at Reading, Pa. last autumn and joined Stanley Livingston to form his Standard American Corp. and Consolidated Book Publishers...
...spiral in commodities was admittedly in order, President Roosevelt moved onto spongy ground in some of his examples and explanations. Commenting on the President's observation that trouble followed when the curve of durable goods industries passed the curve of consumer goods industries, Cleveland Trust Co.'s Leonard P. Ayres noted: "The recovery in durable goods is always faster than in nondurable goods. ... It is true that improvement in durable goods is greater than in nondurable, but it is also true that most of the men still unemployed need to be employed in durable goods industries."* Since...
...classic dead crowded the shelves of his library. Though Virginia Woolf's experience was as restricted as Jane Austen's, her reading knew no bounds. She began early to write reviews for the august London Times Literary Supplement, and still does. When she and her husband, Leonard Woolf, founded the Hogarth Press (1917), they began by publishing limited editions of such promising newcomers as Katherine Mansfield. John Middleton Murry, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster; went on to commercial success and the most promising writer of them all, herself. Her first novel, The Voyage Out (1915), a conventional...
...years before the War, Virginia Stephen married Leonard Sidney Woolf, a liberal journalist and literary critic. Their tall house in Bloomsbury soon became the nucleus of a literary set, the "Bloomsbury Group." The Woolfs housed their Hogarth Press under the same roof. There, in "an immense half-subterranean room, piled with books, parcels, packets of unbound volumes, manuscripts from the press," Virginia Woolf wrote. Many of her friends have been politically active feminists, and from her study Virginia Woolf has done her bit for woman's cause. Her essay on the position of women stated the now-classic requisite...