Word: leos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...next day Senator Brookhart hurried dutifully to the District Court House, appeared before the Grand Jury for 15 minutes to repeat his story. He paused on the way in to be photographed with U. S. District Attorney Leo A. Rover, thus helping to violate a court order against photographs in the building...
Haig Gregory Abdian of Arlington; Benjamin Alexander of Dorchester; Edward Park Anderson of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Lyman Henry Butter-field of Rochester, New York; Lester Cramer of Worcester; Emile Mack Despres of New York City; John Charles de Wilde of Shiloh, New Jersey; Joseph Leo Doob of New York City; Jeronie David Frank of New York City; Hirsch Jacob Freed of Brooklyn, New York; Abraham Grossman of Beverly; Ray Hardin of Cincinnati Ohio; Albert Gailord Hart II of White Plains, New York; Beaumont Alexander Herman of Somerville; Leo Tolstol Hurwitz, of Brooklyn. New York; Richard Whitney of Hartford, Connecticut...
Since 1914, he has devoted a great deal of his time to writing, having published in Russian such books on Sociological subjects as "Crime and Punishment," in 1914; "Leo Tolstoi as a Philosopher," in 1915; "Problems of Social Equality;" "Elements of Sociology;" "Systems of Sociology;" in two volumes; and "Fundamental Problems of Social Pedagogies and Politics...
...admires with a yawn." His biographer Merezhkovsky (pronounced Meer-ish-kawf-skee) is not such a writer. A strange trilogy has "made" Merezhkovsky - a trilogy distinguished by vividness, mysticism and symbolism. It consists of three novels, each one glorifying some significant man into an Antichrist - Julian the Apostate, Leo nardo da Vinci, Peter the Great. But these are novels; the Merezhkovskian Life of Napoleon, less tightly woven than the author's previous book on the same idol, distinguishes itself from the mass of Napoleonic lives by disclosing a secret. Secret of the Napoleonic will-to-power, reveals Biographer Merezhkovsky...
Spectator. The story opens in 1914 with one Brosius, a high school teacher as brutal as the one in Remarque's book, bullying delicate young Leo Silberstein, a Jew. Leo serves only to provide the author with the bleak picture of a despised race. The author is likewise merely a spectator when adults talk politics; when the workers march singing behind their arrested leader; when Germans who were once social and political enemies fall hysterically into each other's arms because "they need their hatred for the other people''; when philosophical Ferd is stoned for predicting...