Word: leos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sunday Afternoon (by James Hagan; Leo Peters & Leslie J. Spiller, producers). Here is a play sure in its unpretentious telling of a wholesome, sometimes humorous, sometimes moving story. A frieze of homely figures on a Mid-western ground, One Sunday Afternoon opens in the shabby dental parlor of Biff Grimes. D. D. S. (Lloyd Nolan, an able new-comer). Stimulated by an old crony, a bottle of rye and innumerable repetitions of "in the good old summer time." Biff's imagination reaches sadly back to his youth in another little town. Nostalgia gives way to intemperate anger when...
Aware that Countess Tolstoy, youngest daughter of the late great Russian Novelist Count Leo Tolstoy, had been occupying the Newtown Square farm (rent free) for about a year, Philadelphia editors printed the letter in full. Excerpts...
...acres of land in 1899. Descended from Tartars, bandied about for almost a century from Tauris to Transcaucasia to Georgia to Cyprus, the Doukhobors-over 4,000 of them-arrived in Canada leaderless and penniless despite the help given them by British Quakers and by Count Leo Tolstoy who donated the royalties from his novel, Resurrection. Peter Verigin, the Doukhobor leader, was in Siberia but three years later he was released, went to Canada. Thereafter his flock grew numerous and prospered. Their canneries and granaries expanded. Their property became worth $20,000,000 even though Canada took back...
...last week most golf authorities had been heard from on the subject of the new cups. Leo Diegel, Al Espinosa, John Dawson, John De Forest, playing in West Coast tournaments, liked the idea. U. S. G. A. officials thought Sarazen might have suggested it to keep his name in print...
...years later Gilda is inhabiting a gaudy penthouse full of Grand Rapids moderne furniture which she is selling to people with more money than taste. Suddenly in the midst of a party Leo and Otto appear, identically and immaculately clad in faultless evening dress. They have, it seems, been traveling. "You must forgive our clothes," says urbane Leo. "We just got off a freight boat." Soon the safely married Gilda succumbs to their witty charms, and when the art broker-husband returns from Chicago he is told that the three will resume their private offensive against the social code. While...