Word: leonarde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lionel Joseph Friedman, Matthew Page Gaffney, Jr., Ramer Bundlie Holtan, Scott Russell Inkley, Walter Baird Kamp, Harold Katz, Joseph Michael Leahey, Charles Henry McCroskey, Leonard Gust Pappas, John Martin Ward, Floyd Gerald Werner...
John Francis Herlihy, Timothy Joseph Horan, Jr., Jacob Harry Jurmain, Leonard Lawrence Kilfoyle, Samuel Howard Miller, Jr., Edward Julian Modest, Samuel Henry Noon, Kalman Novak, John Hamilton Reynolds, Arthur James Scully, Jr., Harry Clement Stubbs, Willard Herbert Whippen...
Tycoon Axel Leonard Wenner-Gren, 58, a tall, vigorous, pink-cheeked extrovert who speaks a dozen languages, is called "Rockefeller of Sweden" because he gave $7,500,000 for a research institute, $100,000 for antiaircraft batteries to defend Stockholm. The Bofors Co., which makes antiaircraft guns, is largely his. So is most of worldwide Electrolux Co. (refrigerators, vacuum cleaners). His lady is from Kansas City, Marguerite Liggett, who studied opera singing in Berlin. His yacht, the Southern Cross, is one of the world's largest, was once owned by Flier Howard Hughes...
...large part of the work discussed as Leonardo's by such 19th-Century critics as Walter Pater was not done by Leonard at all, but by his followers. "But after 50 years of research and stylistic analysis," writes Kenneth Clark, "we have at last reached some sort of general agreement as to which pictures and drawings are really by Leonardo. We must [now again] look at pictures as creations not simply of the human hand, but of the human spirit...
...Died. Leonard Merrick, 75, novelists' novelist, whose whimsically unhappy stories (When Love Flies Out o' the Window, Cynthia, Conrad in Quest of His Youth) were cold-shouldered by his British reading public, tolerated in the U. S.; in London. He usually wrote about people of his own stamp: sensitive, unsuccessful, unembittered, garret-inhabiting. In 1918, after he had published twelve novels, a dozen top-flight authors-including Barrie, Wells, Chesterton, Howells, Pinero, Hewlett-published an appreciative edition of his work, called public attention...