Word: leste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these meagre details the Daily Mail added a sarcastic comment that it would not risk printing a picture of Comedian Chaplin, lest this constitute a legal breach...
...wake up in the middle of the night, fearful lest something terrible may be happening at our army posts"--Secretary of War Davis...
...wake up in the middle of the night, fearful lest something terrible may be happening at our army posts," confessed Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis before the Women's National Republican Club in Manhattan last week. This was not the first time that "disgraceful housing conditions" in U. S. Army camps have been mentioned within the last six months...
This time bluff and bruises availed nothing. Too many Chinamen were pouring over the barricades. Lest the mere presence of the marines provoke bloodshed they were withdrawn to British warships in the harbor. Lest the Union Jack incite to violence the British Consul hauled it down...
Italia Virile. Lest little Rico, Tito and Beppo grow up without proper enthusiasm for black shirts, castor oil and kindred masculinities of Fascism, they shall no longer be taught important subjects like history, literature and philosophy by women, but by men only, "in- spired and animated by strong, virile sentiment." So announced Professor Pietro Fedele, Italian Minister of Education, who last fortnight weeded out many a college professor and high school teacher possessed of un-Fascist sentiments. Elucidation: "Observation has demonstrated that women lack enthusiasm for philosophy, which they always seek to tincture with religion. They cannot write, and history...