Word: leos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bootleg." Dr. Sven V. Knudsen herded 304 U.S. schoolboys aboard the Hellig Olav, bound on a goodwill tour of Scandinavia. What Pilgrim Knudsen told friends at the pier, what he may reveal to awed Scandinavians, is this: "The boy of today is the man of tomorrow." Count Leo Tolstoi, venerable, charming son of the famed novelist, came on the De Grasse with two objects in view. One is to lecture during the Tolstoi centennial in August and September. The other is shrouded in deepest Slavic mystery. Emil Louis George Hohenthal departed on the Mauretania, weighted down by the titles...
...Schoolgirl of Sixteen." The affair of Miss Savidge arose when she was acquitted of a charge of improper conduct in Hyde Park with Sir Leo Chiozza Money, onetime Parliamentary Secretary to David Lloyd George. The two constables who made the false arrest have been fined ?10 ($48), stand today in danger of prosecution for perjury, and would be aided in proving themselves honest men by statements subsequently taken down from Miss Savidge at Scotland Yard. She was hustled there by constables after her acquittal, and examined amid circumstances smacking of the third degree...
...established that he has been "a confidential clerk to a firm of accountants in Lincoln's Inn Fields for 21 years," and explained that both he and Mrs. Savidge have known from the first of their 22-year-old daughter's occasional dinners and excursions with Sir Leo Chiozza Money, 58, married...
Said Man Savidge: "I was vain enough to be pleased that I had a daughter who could be sufficiently interesting to attract a gentleman like Sir Leo. ... I have a jolly good girl for a daughter...
...Died. Leo Ditrichstein, 63, famed Hungarian-born actor (Trilby), playwright (The Great Lover) ; in Auersperg, Austria; of heart disease. Less than four years ago retired from the U. S. stage, sold his U. S. possessions, spoke loudly on the deplorable condition of the U. S. theatre, deplorable invasion of the cinema, and the deplorable tempo of U. S. life, then sailed for Europe forever...