Word: leos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When, in a New York by-election, the Democrats were trounced by the Progressive Party's Leo Isacson in Boss Ed Flynn's own Bronx, panic swept the Democratic ranks. Politicos began to desert the Truman ship. Anybody but Truman was the cry. Through it all, the man from Missouri kept his own counsel, and laid his plans. When he was asked to withdraw, he retorted grimly: "I was not brought up to run from a fight...
...prickly Father Moynihan, engrossed in his scheme, Leo G. Carroll (Angel Street, The Late George Apley) is adroit as always, but he cannot do much more than brighten things up the way flowers do a sickroom. Everything in Jenny Kissed Me is well meant and almost nothing is well handled: it dawdles when it should skip, and sits gabbily on when it should make its excuses...
...played by British Actor Leo Genn (recently seen in Mourning Becomes Electra and memorable as the sardonic Lord Constable of France in Henry V), Dr. Kik is the ideal psychoanalyst-patient, handsome, experienced and endowed with a deep, beautiful voice as intricately gentle as a surgeon's hands. He is the perfect Freudian knight and the picture's real hero...
...Minnesota's 250-lb. Tackle Leo Nomellini, amateur boogie-woogie pianist and short-order cook who never played football in high school. Extremely fast for his weight, Leo was the star of the line that held Michigan's great offense to 22 yards net gain by rushing. The other lineman was Penn's 220-lb. Center Chuck Bednarik, alias The Clutch, a bear for handing out punishment...
...have been better to allow more room for Ernest Hemingway (one), E. M. Forster (4/5), Lytton Strachey (½) and a shade less to Editor Christopher Morley (four)? Similarly, 5¼ columns for Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay seem extravagant in a book that spares less than two to Leo Tolstoy, one column to V. I. Lenin and less than one to James Joyce, twelve lines to Scott Fitzgerald, 13 to André Gide, five to James Thurber, one to Sidney and Beatrice Webb, and nothing at all to Arnold Toynbee, Edmund Wilson and the "Big Three" of psychology (Freud, Jung...