Word: leste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lest U. S. motorists should begin to clamor prematurely for cheaper tires, Rubberman Henderson added hastily...
Gabrilowitch brought his musicians to Manhattan in two special trains of twelve cars each, with two baggage cars and four diners. He wrote to the papers, asking that audiences attend his performances in a special mood of gravity and that they refrain from wearing bright colored clothes, lest there should be discord in the earnest surroundings of Holy Week, and lest the spell of a "musical masterpiece" be injured. Further, Mr. Gabrilowitch said this: "In all the years of my musical experience I have never found as much joy and inspiration in any artistic task as in the study...
...Cinema Censorship Commission had taken no action, up to last week, on any of the 380 U. S. films now awaiting its approval. Since sales to French exhibitors for the forthcoming season are customarily made in April, U. S. film representatives were fuming with uneasiness in Paris, last week, lest the Commission diddle and dawdle until the films submitted to it lose most of their sales value...
...President Wilson chose Mr. Baruch for chairman of the almost omnipotent War Industries Board, charged with controlling and purchasing all the raw materials and industrial fabrications the Allies required of the U.S. to prosecute the War. Upon accepting this post, Mr. Baruch sold out enormously valuable stock holdings lest they bias his judgment, and at Washington (as Writer Mark Sullivan said) went "flying down the road with his tail over the dash board . . . regardless of authorization, money or detail. When there isn't any money available, he uses his own." There being some trouble over renting an office floor...
...tableau ended the ceremony when Captain French and Coach Horween clasped hands just out of reach of the flames. Lest any of the spectators should not see the allegory, the fourth assistant manager ran forward and set up at their feet a sign reading "SPRING FOOTBALL...