Word: les
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...young woman rehearsed a 'cello solo. When the orchestra finished playing, her father stepped up to the podium, punched Conductor Harty exclaimed : "The orchestra played so loud I couldn't hear her." At a party given by Irving Netcher, rich Chicagoan, and Roszika Dolly Netcher at Juan-les-Pins, France, a guest told Lord & Lady Milford Haven, cousins of Britain's George V, that champagne is good for dance-tired feet. She ordered some to try it. After the party Host Netcher was billed $100 for "champagne for feet," angrily refused...
...Swiss police, alarmed by a threatening note that the bridegroom was in "grave danger," guarded every shadow of the church. Almost furtively, as the serv ice ended, the new Count & Countess slipped out, dashed away in a motor car to spend their honeymoon some 30 miles distant at Evian-les-Bains...
...Castle, sprang an immediate surprise. Instead of speaking straight English (as scheduled) he skipped back & forth between English and French: "Gentlemen. ... I believe this is the first time in history that any sovereign has presided at the opening of a conference of all the nations of the world. . . . "Messieurs les délégués, c'est avec trés profonde émotion que je vois autour de moi cette auguste assemblée qui parait si vaste mais qui représente une conception infiniment plus vaste-d'espoir et les voeux du monde...
...before the 500-mi. Memorial Day automobile derby at Indianapolis Speedway, Driver Les Spangler of Los Angeles went out behind his garage to look at a mother rabbit and six bunnies he was raising. Someone asked him if he was grooming them for their lucky left hind feet. "Naw," he said, "I don't need any charms. I'm just naturally a lucky...
...year's seniors were off the U. S. C. team, it looked as though Stanford had a fine chance to come back-even though everyone knew that Quarter-miler Ben Eastman has been off form this spring, that Pole-vaulter Bill Miller had hurt his foot, that Sprinter Les Flables had a bad knee. When Stanford qualified 14 men in the trials to Southern California's 15, the case still looked hopeful. The 14 were mostly field athletes whose records were sure to stand up for points while U. S. C.'s runners might be beaten...