Word: leone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Greed." As doyen of the Corps Diplomatique, the Spanish Ambassador Count José Maria Quiñones de Leon delivered himself of an ornate bouquet of phrases into one of which he startlingly introduced the wasp word "greed...
Other contributors are Joseph Urban and Armistead Fitzhugh (landscape architect) of Manhattan, Eliel Saarinen of Detroit, Leon V. Solon (ceramics) of Tenafly, N. J. & Manhattan...
...Hotel George V de luxe seat of the second Dawes Committee. Charter Bellhops include: 1) Stuart Crocker, a General Electric associate of Chairman of the Second Dawes Committee Owen D. Young; 2) Frederick Bate, Secretary of the Committee; 3) M. de Sanchez of the Morgan Company; 4) Leon Fraser, Paris representative of Agent General of Reparations Seymour Parker Gilbert. In thus projecting on a higher plane the luncheon club habits of Babbitts, these junior tycoons confirmed the fixed belief of Frenchmen that "Americans are all alike...
...hours later, in Chester, Pa., kind-hearted Brigadier General Charles Eliot Hyatt of the Pennsylvania Military College, summoned General Jesus's. 15-year-old son, Cadet Leon Aguirre, to his private office. He told the boy that his father had just been executed, as had his uncle, Gen. Manuel Aguirre, the week before...
Some years back, when George Leon Loft, son of George W. Loft, famed "penny-a-pound-profit" candyman, was a member of the New York Stock Exchange, he appeared on the trading floor in a smart new spring suit. Knowing his reputation for being ready to buy or sell anything, friends of Mr. Loft surrounded him and began to auction off the suit. When the price reached $100, George said "sold." Into a telephone booth he stepped, removed the suit, tossed it out to the purchaser, remained in seclusion until another suit was brought from his home...