Word: leste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York. Mr. Hogan, attorney for Edward L. Doheny in the Fall-Doheny phases of the oil lease litigation, heard that Representative Fish had publicly listed jury-tampering among Dr. Doheny's doings. Since Mr. Doheny has yet another trial to stand, Lawyer Hogan remonstrated with Representative Fish lest his client be further misunderstood by the public. Representative Fish denied having cast upon Mr. Doheny any aspersions in addition to those cast by the U. S. Supreme Court, which mentioned "fraud" and "collusion." Then Representative Fish took occasion to address Lawyer Hogan as follows on the Fall-Sinclair-Doheny business...
...Sculptor Epstein; then they looked at their catalogs and saw, "No. 21: Weeping Woman." They turned to the bronze face again. Slowly there crept into their minds the feeling that perhaps, in her slack eyes, her gasping mouth, her anguished hands there existed in truth some climax of sorrow. Lest they should be forced to reverse their preconceived opinions of Mr. Epstein, they hurried away from the bronze figures...
...that "even Williams," as the writer puts it, should have more courses in Greek than Harvard, then might the eager Cambridge drinker at the classic spring cry horror and alas, and leave for Williamstown--where he might also enjoy the better climate and the winter sports. But in rear lest such should actually be the case, the Vagabond did a bit of investigating here and there throughout the Yard, and discovered--with so much joy that he took the afternoon and went to the movies--that Harvard offers no less than 19 courses intimately connected with the Greek language...
...CRIMSON once before tried to praise the work of Harvard's gallant musicians. The effort was misinterpreted. Lest any doubt still exist, let it be said that in the opinion of this paper no Harvard band has exceeded Mr. Holland's cohorts on Saturday in whatever it is that makes a band good...
Most people associate the battle of Bosworth Field with Richard III's offer to barter his kingdom for a lone horse. As a matter of fact, he lest his kingdom anyway, and Henry Richmond, who picked up the crown from a thorn bush and became Henry VII of England was the man who started Britain on the road to the glory and success of the Elizabethan...