Word: leos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wanna be a lion," Gertrude Stein announced to her brother Leo. So she followed him to Cambridge, and, in 1893, registered at the "Harvard Annex." Gertrude Stein has since become legend. Not only did she define the rose, but she influenced such men as Picasso, Matisse, Hemingway...
...LEO I. WALKER
...substantial unemployment." But under a 1954 Executive Order by President Eisenhower, even substantial unemployment is not a valid argument if a domestic company's bid is 12% or more above the lowest foreign bid. B.L.H.'s bid was 21% higher than English Electric's. ODCM Chief Leo Hoegh got around that by arguing that a contract award to B.L.H. was necessary for clear reasons of "national security." He said the U.S. needed to maintain and keep in good working order the huge machine tools, called "elephant tools," used to build the turbines...
...Sleep of Baby Filbertson, by James Leo Herlihy. Seven short stories about the maimed, the infantile, the impotent, who fall like "twisted apples" from the tree of life...
...passage from Winesburg, Ohio which James Leo Herlihy takes for his text, Sherwood Anderson remarks that the unmarketable apples that the pickers disdain to harvest are actually choice: "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." But times have changed since Anderson's masterpiece appeared in 1919. Nowadays it is precisely the twisted fruits of humanity-as plucked from the tree of American life by such as Eugene O'Neill, Carson McCullers and Tennessee Williams-that command the commercial market, leaving the rosy, chubby ones to go hang. Indeed. Author Herlihy (a TVeteran and co-author...