Word: leos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Good old fashioned California Christmas weather beamed on the bunkers as the Pacific winter golf season began at San Diego. Leo Diegel from far away, frozen White Plains, N. Y., holed a 50 foot putt on the home green to win the first round with 67, five under par. When famed professionals from all over U. S. had completed 54 holes Diegel's score was still low, 214. For this the San Diego Country Club stuffed $1,000 in his Christmas stocking...
...small black box rested on a stand. From its top projected a metal rod approximately twelve inches high; from its side projected a horizontal metal ring. Before the box stood a thin, blond Russian, Professor Leo Theremin of State Physical Institute of Leningrad. He placed his right hand near the upright rod; a musical note streamed from the box. He wiggled his right fingers; chords and phrases danced from the box. He moved his left hand towards the horizontal ring; the music roared deeply. He removed his left hand; the music whispered forth...
...Outlaw Jesse James. The poems are all real, all primitive, good reading. But the Songbag is a music book, to be kept on the piano. There are harmonies more tempting than any of the verses. They fairly cry to be sung and the arrangements come from such composers as Leo Sowerby, Henry Joslyn, Alfred G. Wathall, Edward Collins, Ruth Porter Crawford, Lillian Rosedale Goodman. Some of them, to be sure, are a bit elaborate for the earthy tunes that inspired them but for the most part they are well adapted. Any complaints will come from the specialist in ditties...
...Albert S. Lavenson (Oakland, Calif.), Abraham C. Ratshesky (Boston), Mortimer L. Schiff (New York), Moses Schoenberg (St. Louis); Civic Workers Edward A. Filene (Boston), Adolph Lewisohn (New York); Educators Cyrus Adler, Abraham Flexner, Felix Frankfurter; Education Benefactors George S. Cohen*, Simon Guggenheim, Louis B. Kuppenheimer, Charles A. Wimpfheimer; Internationalists Leo S. Rowe, Simon Straus, Felix M. Warburg, Journalists Walter Lippmann, Adolph S. Ochs, Louis Wiley; Authors Lewis Browne, Octavus Roy Cohen, Edna Ferber, Arthur Guiterman, George S. Hellman, Fannie Hurst, Manuel Komroff, Maria Moravsky, Emanie N Sachs, Thyra Samter Winslow; Cinema Men William...
Love is certainly a poor translation of the title of Anna Karenina. It would be natural to suppose that the rest of famed Leo Tolstoi's novel would suffer similarly; that it does not, is due in part to the direction of Edmund Goulding and in even larger part to the acting of Greta Garbo...