Word: leonards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Late wife (she died in 1921) of Alexander Pollock Moore, present U. S. Ambassador to Spain (See SPAIN, Page 16) whom she married in 1912. Famed showgirl, early exponent of tights, and sometime co-star with Weber and Fields, Mrs. Moore (nee Leonard, not Russell) made her last public appearance at the close of the War with Raymond Hitchcock in Hitchy...
...whole idea of this conservation movement originated with the late H. S. Leonard of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company. He convinced the other ammunition makers that if they did not take the lead in game preservation, there would in a few years be no game, and their business would be ruined. He was influenced first by business considerations, and second by the fact that he believed in sport, and that the welfare of the country required game preservation for sportsmen of the future...
...think that a college president ought to have the flowing patriarchal beard, it is interesting to recall that Dr. Jesse Appleton was elected president of Bowdoin in 1807 at the age of 35; Dr. William Allen, his successor, was elected in 1819 at the age of 36; and Dr. Leonard Woods, who succeeded Dr. Allen, was elected in 1839 at the age of 32. Thus another popular fallacy is exploded...
Sued for Divorce. Osborne C. Wood, 27, son of Major General Leonard Wood, onetime U. S. Army lieutenant, winner of a large fortune in Wall Street and loser of that fortune at the gaming tables of Europe, by Mrs. Katherine Thompson Wood; at Wilmington, Del. She is at Southampton, L. I., with her children. He is in Florida attempting to recoup in real estate...
Depressing. When Lightweight Champion Benny Leonard retired from the ring (TIME, Jan. 26) in order to sooth the declining years of his mother, the New York Boxing Commission proclaimed a tournament to see who should succeed him. Two men reached the finals. This couple-one James Goodrich (Buffalo), one Stanislaus Loayza (Chile)-fought a depressing bout last week on Long Island. In the first round, Goodrich walked over to the Chilean, hit him in the face with his right fist. Loayza fell down, got up again. Goodrich hit him in the face with his right fist, etc. This operation...