Word: leos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next morning smart folk of London's West End were scandalized to learn that the "man of substance" was indeed "no riff-raff," but instead their acquaintance or friend Sir Leo Chiozza Money, 57, one-time Parliamentary Secretary to David Lloyd George, author of the British convoy system during the World...
Worse still, Sir Leo's arrest seemed significant of a distressing trend, for it came as the fourth of a series of similar arrests of British Knights with young women in Hyde Park. The other Knights are Sir Basil Home Thomson, onetime Chief of the Criminal Investigation Bureau of Scotland Yard (TIME, Dec. 28, 1925), secondly Sir Arthur Evans, famed archeologist, discoverer of buried civilizations in Crete, and most reprehensively of all Sir Almeric Fitzroy, onetime Clerk of His Majesty's Privy Council and intimate of that late & lusty monarch Edward...
Therefore, when Sir Leo Chiozza Money came up for trial, last week, in Marlborough Street Police Court, patriotic Britons hoped against hope that he would be able to vindicate his honor and unsmirch in some degree the deplorable record of the Knightage and Hyde Park...
...Leo began by testifying that the young woman with whom he was arrested, Miss Irene Savage, lives at home with her parents, has been for the past four and a half years steadily employed as a tester of radio bulbs, and is engaged to marry, said Sir Leo: "That young man over there...
...Cincinnati Times-Star. Next day, Brother Charles made a gift of $5,000, not to Brother Horace's school, but to the Hebrew Union College of Cincinnati. The day after that, Taft School received a gift of $50,000, not from a gentile, but from Mortimer Leo Schiff, Jewish philanthropist, Manhattan banker, whose son John was a graduate of Taft School & Yale. Jews and gentiles were proud of each other...