Word: leonards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Doom? Eugenists view with alarm the world's future population. From England wrote Major Leonard Darwin, 82, eugenist son of Evolutionist Charles Darwin: "My firm conviction is that if widespread eugenic reforms are not adopted during the next hundred years or so, our Western civilization is inevitably destined to such a slow and gradual decay as that which has been experienced in the past by every great ancient civilization...
...became famed with the late Ed ("Oh, Mister") Gallagher. Al Schoenberg's sister Minna was a Manhattan fur and lace worker. She married an Alsatian immigrant named Samuel Marx who frequently sat up all night playing pinochle in his tailor-shop. Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Marx had five sons: Leonard (Chico), Arthur (Harpo), Milton (Gummo). Julius (Groucho) and, ten years later, Herbert (Zeppo...
...blow up the Welland Canal. Germany has enough difficulties of its own and Journalism can cooperate in fostering international comity by emphasizing good qualities in statesmen and not parading old skeletons. I introduced Papen as my successor in Washington in January 1914. Then I said to the late General Leonard Wood that Papen was not only a dashing soldier but also a diplomat. The alleged conspiracy to blow up the Welland Canal is one of the incidents of war. It is the duty of the soldier to risk everything in the service of his country. It is the misfortune...
...gathering dramatic effect, the other two are nuisances. These are recorded on the sound track by a double exposure process, the characters meanwhile standing immobile and expressionless facing each other. This gives a recurrent trance effect as though an offstage ventriloquist were at work. Selfconscious, Director Robert Z. Leonard hurried the soliloquies, giving them a furtive quality. The Hollywood audience giggled...
...Sabin's is the Crusaders, which numbers a million militant male members (chiefly young) and which was founded in the same month and year. Last week. two days after the Roslyn convention, the Crusaders, 40 trustees and commanders met privately in the country home of Trustee Leonard Hanna at Mentor, Ohio, near Cleveland where the organization was formed. Plotting their part in the coming elections, the Crusader board, of which Mrs. Sabin's stepson Charles Jr. is a member, took a more cautious course than their feminine contemporaries. In a statement which leaned toward but did not embrace...