Word: leos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Werner Janssen's musical way had been hard. At Dartmouth he conducted a restaurant orchestra, waited on table between pieces. After graduation he went to Boston, sold sheet music by day, earned $3 a night playing the piano for Leo Reisman at the Hotel Brunswick. From there he went to New York, started writing musical shows. But his ambition reached higher and his energy was tremendous. New Year's Eve in New York was his lucky piece. He went to Cleveland to hear Nikolai Sokoloff play it, promptly got a radio job conducting the Guardian Trust Orchestra...
...Jack Torrance is a "natural" athletic prodigy. At the Southern A. A. U. meet last year he picked up the 56-lb. weight, asked the meet director how to throw the thing, stepped into the circle and slung it 32 ft., a meet record, his first try. Prophetically said Leo Sexton, U. S. Olympic shot putter: "Wait until he learns how to put that ball. As soon as he gets the knack of letting the shot go, he'll break every record in the book...
Over Georgia's rutty red roads one August night 19 years ago, a man named B. B. ("Bunce") Napier drove an automobile in the back of which crouched a State prisoner about to be lynched. The prisoner was Leo Frank, young Brooklyn Jew who had gone to Atlanta to superintend a pencil factory. When 14-year-old Mary Phagan was found murdered in the plant, Frank, amid a popular uproar against Jews in general, was arrested, tried, convicted, sentenced to death. Governor John Marshall Slaton imperiled his own life by commuting Frank's sentence to life imprisonment...
...trembling lap lay a Bible opened to Matthew 7: 1-2: Judge not that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged; and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. Napier said he guessed he knew how Leo Frank felt that night...
...Washington, D.C., Donald Leo Boyd, 2, spied the open end of a pipe sticking out of the ground, shoved his chubby leg into it. When the leg stuck, Donald cried. A crowd collected, sent for emergency, police and fire squads. The crowd grew to more than 1,000, jamming traffic as they milled and chattered. A policeman split open the pipe while Donald clung to his father, thoughtfully inspected his fellow Washingtonians, sucked his fingers...