Word: leos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Leo A. Ecker, Charles M. Talbot, Townsend U. Weekes, William D. Bramhall...
...does his family, but theirs is not a political story. Judith Foxe was what passed for a gentleman's daughter in those parts. When she married one of her father's tenants her father never spoke to her again. But Judith schemed to get her youngest son Leo raised to the noble status of gentleman and, by hook & crook, a better education than his brothers and sisters. She wanted him to be a doctor, but Leo was too common a clay. He did little but drink and wench, letting his property slip through his fingers. Then a meeting...
...again, Leo found himself nearly destitute, but Fenianism had given him an aim in life. He married one of his old wenches, lived in poverty but went on plotting his revenge against the police. Twice more he went to jail, but he lived to be an old man who liked to think himself a desperate character. At the end the furnace of the Dublin Easter rebellion swallowed...
Died. Count Ilya Tolstoy, 67, second son of the late great Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, lecturer, author (Visions, Reminiscences of My Father); of heart and gall-bladder disorders; in New Haven, Conn. After the 1917 revolution he returned to Russia from a U. S. lecture tour, was driven out again by Bolsheviks. With his wife, a Russian emigree whom he married in 1920 in Newark, he lived in the Connecticut hills, tilled his own soil. In 1926 he helped with the screen adaptation of his father's Resurrection, played in it the part of the cobbler-philosopher...
...Henry Greenleaf Pearson, Jr. 119 William Thomas Piper, Jr. 109 Henry Ehrlich, 2d 91 John Parker Hale Chandler, Jr. 76 Harry Morris Plotkin 55 ALBUM COMMITTEE *David Weld 299 *James Parton 219 *Sidney Carroll 217 *Gordon Chase Streeter 210 *Henry Charles Thacher 175 George Huntington Damon 167 Cyrus Leo Sulzberger 152 Richard Lawrence Stites 142 Robert Blaine Murray, Jr. 132 Daniel Wortham Litscher 110 CLASS DAY COMMITTEE *David Bradley Cheek 251 *Paul deBarsy deGive 242 *Frederick Greeley Crocker 218 *Warren Albert Casey 196 *George Gore 195 *Eddy James Rogers 195 *David Eli Kopans 194 Robert Satterlee Hurlbut 191 James Mansfield...