Word: leone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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None of the 28 deputies noticed that the old Poldavian name of Lamidaeff might read "I'Ami d'A. F."-"the friend of A. F.," "the friend of L'Action Française" famed royalist newspaper of which the editor is Leon Daudet, bon vivant, practical jokester, son of famed Author Alphonse Daudet (Tartarin de Tarascon), exile from the republic he has so consistently lampooned (TIME, June 13, 1927, et seq.). Three days after the 28 gullible deputies replied to the "Poldavian Minister," a special edition of L'Action Française appeared...
Comrade Zinoviev fell into the bad graces of the Soviet Government about the same time as did Leon Trotsky, but unlike Trotsky he crawled back into the Soviet's good graces. Devoid of power, he remained in the party; in Russia only a member of "the party" can hold office...
...minutes of increasing bewilderment, the auction proved a fiasco. True, the Crucifixion was sold for $375,000, breaking the U. S. record. But there was no feverish bidding, there were no great names. The picture was quietly repurchased by Sir Joseph Duveen himself. The Madonna and Child went to Leon Schinasi, Manhattan tobacco merchant, for a paltry $125,000. The auctioneer had to face the fact that between the appraisal total and the realized total was a difference...
...will be staged by the newly-founded Theatre Society of St. Louis, similar to Manhattan's Theatre Guild. From more than 400 applicants, 32 agile St. Louis girls have been selected to skip in the choruses. Other St. Louisans are designing scenery, working backstage. Famed headliners-Mary Eaton, Leon Errol, Lulu McConnell-have already accepted contracts for the summer season. Like the city's successful Municipal Opera Company, the theatre will be in the open air, under a dome of boughs. Top price: $2.50. Life membership in the Society (entitling to 20% price reduction): $25. These frolics...
Among the distinguished physiologists who will be present at the Congress are, in addition to Krogh, Professor Pavlov of Leningrad and Professor Leon Fredriq. The President of the Congress is Dr. William H. Howell of Johns Hopkins University. The local committee in charge of arrangements consists of Cannon, chairman, and Doctors E. J. Cohn and A. C. Redfield '13 of the Medical School, secretaries...