Word: leone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whispering as to whether little Miss Such-&-Such got any invitations. Then there was the Queen, chosen more for her social graces than for Atlantic City qualifications. This year she was Miss Betty Watson, daughter of Banker Eli T. Watson, last year's Rex. The new Rex was Leon Irwin, insurance man, to whom Mayor Walker drank his only champagne toast of the trip...
Dreiser. Arrived at Manhattan, last week, famed novelist Theodore Dreiser commented upon an extensive visit which he had just made to Soviet Russia. Said he: ". . .A short time before the exile of Leon (Lev) Trotsky (TIME, Dec. 26) he was subjected to pelting with vegetables...
...collapsed and resigned his posts after doing his lethal duty by Murderers Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray at Sing Sing Prison last fortnight. The report was false. Executioner Elliott had neither collapsed nor resigned. Nor did he collapse late last week when he pulled the switch that sent Leon Scovern, 20, to death for the murder of a sweetheart's brother...
...whites 950,000, mulattos 300,000, blacks 50,000. The natives elect their own Senate & House and further elect a resident Commissioner who represents them in the U. S. Congress. Island ceded by Spain to U. S. in 1898. At San Juan is the ancient Shrine of Ponce de Leon and the new Condado-Vanderbilt Hotel. Juan Ponce de Leon was appointed by Columbus the Lieut. Governor of "Hispaniola" (Haiti) and from there captured the island of Porto Rico, believing it to abound in gold. Thence, he set out to discover the present island of Bimini, supposed to contain...
...such pure, understanding tact, observers thought, was finely typical of M. Chiappe. They recalled how he won fame (TIME, June 27) by his quiet, skillful arrest of Leon Daudet, editor of L'Action Francaise. Theatric, irrepressible M. Daudet had barricaded himself against the police and was supported by stalwart young Royalists armed with canes. Moreover public sympathy was with Daudet-both because of his high spirit and because the offense for which he had been sentenced to jail was merely technical. In such circumstances the arrest had to be nonviolent. M. le Préfet Jean Chiappe solved...