Word: leonarde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only trouble with the North Sea experiment was that the guinea pigs flatly refuted the experimenters' report. The only unquestioned result was a bewildering altercation between Herr Goring's office and Great Britain's First Lord of the Admiralty, effervescent Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill...
Freely mentioned as the inspiration for the crackpot playboy is four-times married, asbestos-protected Tommy Manville. After witnessing the opening performance of See My Lawyer, Manville went on to a nightclub. There, reported spry Columnist Leonard Lyons, Manville encountered Actor Nugent, and putting his arms around Nugent's shoulders, murmured: "Thank you so much for not having made me out a ridiculous character...
Journey's End (by R. C. Sherriff; produced by Leonard Sillman). Broadway's 1939-40 season opened last week extremely late but extremely aptly: with a revival of one of the two most famous plays (the other: What Price Glory?) about World War I. But despite its timeliness, to most Broadway critics Journey's End seemed much less remarkable than when first produced here ten years ago. Contrasted with the millions now in arms all over Europe, a handful of British officers quaking in a 1918 dugout seemed inexpressive, minuscule...
Tufts' Leonard Carmichael: "More than ever the need of our democracy is for trained citizens and specialists who can carry on the work of building in a world that elsewhere is being torn to its foundation...
Married. Michael Whitney Straight, 23, son of the late Willard Dickerman Straight, founder of the New Republic and Asia, and of Mrs. Leonard Knight Elm-hirst, queen of Dartington Hall, vast educational experiment in Devonshire, England; and Belinda Booth Crompton, 19; in Wilton...