Word: leopold
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...passed the gene to one son, two daughters: Leopold, who died at 31, was grandfather of Lord Trematon, who died at 21; Alice, who married Prince Louis of Hesse, had one hemophilic son who died at three, and two carrier daughters; Beatrice, who married Prince Henry of Battenberg, had two affected sons and a carrier daughter. Alice's elder carrier daughter Irene married Prince Henry of Prussia; one hemophilic son, Waldemar, lived to 56, but another died at four; Alice's younger carrier daughter Alexandra married Czar Nicholas II, was murdered with him and their hemophilic...
James Joyce did a terrible thing for a whole generation of writers when he put that tape recorder inside the skull of Leopold Bloom. James Patrick Donleavy, a Dublin-educated New York novelist, ran off a lively spool or two in a novel called The Ginger Man, a picaresque tale of low life and high philosophy in Dublin's slums. He has now reverted to tape in a second novel, this one called A Singular Man, whose hero, equipped with the Joyce instant-playback brain, goes all over the Blooming place in Manhattan...
Canada's Communists can be sure that other Mounties are sprinkled through their secret cells. As far back as 1921, Mountie John Leopold went underground to become Jack Esselwein, Socialist house painter and first secretary of the Communist Party in Regina, Sask. In the old days an aspiring Mountie had to be 6 ft. tall, or better. But that was like wearing a "Kick Me" sign in the shadowy world of plain-clothes police work. Today's Mounties only have to measure an "average" 5 ft. 8 in.-and they are busily infiltrating the Montreal heroin syndicates, ingratiating...
...Shadow. Such a compliment is treasured in Houston as a propaganda victory in its cold war with Dallas. In the old days Dallas had all the sophistication, and Houston was a "whisky and trombone town"; the orchestra played Old Black Joe for encores. Leopold Stokowski was hired in the cultural offensive of 1955, and though he greatly improved the orchestra during his 51-year tenure, he also proved himself hopelessly alien to the strange culture of the far west. He called Houston "Hooston," and his chauffeur, in poetic inability to say "Maestro," called the boss "Moscow." When Sir John arrived...
...play for the stereo age. They are hi-fi's first completely successful encounter with a golden age of the piano, and they come with towering endorsements from the old masters (praising the piano rolls) and from such acute modern listeners as Glenn Gould, George Szell and Leopold Stokowski (praising the records...