Word: leste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...correspondent of the New York Herald Tribune?a paper on which he once worked as a reporter?Mr. Lamont said that, although "The City" (financial London) at first strongly backed Chancellor Snowden's demand for £2,000,000 per annum more sponge cake, there was now lively apprehension lest that same demand should wreck the Conference and prevent adoption of the Young Plan. "They feel," said Mr. Lamont, allowing himself to be directly quoted, "that failure to reach some agreement would mean international derangement. They feel it would endanger the gold standard [of Sterling] and would threaten British financial...
...throne in 1858, and therefore he had to wait over 70 years for Good Prince Johann's death and his own accession a few months ago. So good was Johann, in the purest dynastic sense, that Prince Franz lived in daily terror for some 20 years lest his affair with a commoner be found out. His secret morganatic marriage a decade ago scarcely decreased the couple's anxiety. Today the new Mother of Liechtenstein is 51. She and Prince Franz are believed to be childless. Surely, urge their well-wishers, two such devoted lovers may be pardoned much...
...Montpelier, Va., one Farmer Terrell put a hive of bees on a pile of hen's eggs interspersed with flannel strips. When the eggs hatched, Farmer Terrell whisked the bees away lest they sting his chicks...
...facetious gravediggers dig well, serious gravediggers may dig poorly, or indeed not at all. Such was the case in Manhattan last week when more than 300 serious gravediggers went on strike at Calvary, great Catholic cemetery. Due to the gravediggers' seriousness, hundreds of Catholic families feared lest their dead would be improperly, amateurishly buried...
...alert Manhattanites. In Philadelphia he painted Mrs. E. T. Stotesbury and all six of the A. Atwater Kents. He went to Detroit to paint Col. Lindbergh at the behest of Edsel Ford, who wanted to give the portrait to the city. But Col. Lindbergh backed out of the engagement lest all U. S. cities make similar demands on his time. In his large Book-Cadillac studio-suite, Painter Chandor stayed at Detroit, painting the prosperous, until last spring when TIME gave him his Hoover Cabinet commission, when he moved to Washington. This project is now half-finished, with the President...