Word: leonarde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Least violent is Career in C Major, which is intentional opéra bouffe. Its hero is Leonard Borland, a big-time contractor stalled by the Depression. He is the henpecked husband of an awesome socialite with a nasty disposition and a maniacal ambition to be a singer. Leonard is also an undiscovered baritone of great power. One day a concupiscent soprano, the season's sensation, sights and seduces him. Sample: "We stayed that way a minute, breathing into each other's faces, looking into each other's eyes. Then she mumbled: 'Damn...
Chief of Array Chaplains William R. Arnold clasped Bishop Adna Wright Leonard's hand: "May the good Lord grant you happy landings." Replied the Methodist Bishop to the Catholic Monsignor: "Especially if one of them is the final landing...
Last week over bleak Iceland his final landing came. Letting down through a dense fog an Army plane crashed and burned. In the wreckage died General Frank M. Andrews, Bishop Leonard, Army Chaplains Robert...
Born in Cincinnati 68 years ago, handsome Bishop Leonard, one of the few Methodist Bishops who wore a clerical collar, served churches in the U.S., Puerto Rico, Rome, Italy, was elected a Bishop in 1916. Since 1939 he served as resident Bishop of the Washington Area. A militant prohibitionist, he was once president of New York's Anti-Saloon League, was famed among Methodists for his forthright sermons, his uncompromising attitudes...
With him perished his chief of staff, Brigadier General Charles H. Earth; his able, gregarious public-relations officer, Colonel Morrow Krum, onetime Chicago newsman, and Bishop Adna W. Leonard...