Word: leste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lest the more naive readers of this page buy wedding presents for Douglas and Dorothy, hereinbefore intimately mentioned, it may be said that no wedding is actually contemplated. Dorothy is 17; Douglas...
...lest it be thought that I am underestimating Mr. Washburn's work let me quote at random. "This is another story of the Log Cabin to the White House." "Cal first went to school in the little red schoolhouse." "He early became an adept in divorcing the lowing herd which winds slowly o'er the lea from the raw material which makes for butter and cheese." "He is as much himself at work in smock-frock and boots as the sometimes effete children of Beacon Street, when they loll in dinner jackets, or decollate and lapis lazuli...
...Jockey Club cast the palm to Zev, asking My Own to stand ready in his stall lest a substitute be needed...
Court of Common Pleas to change their name to Cabot, as Kabotchnik was " cumbersome, a hardship and an inconvenience." Lest the Kabotchniks be taken for relatives of theirs, members of the New England Cabot family (including Judge Cabot of the? Boston Juvenile Court; Stephen Cabot, Headmaster of St. George's School, Middletown, R. I.; Dr. Hugh Cabot, Dean of Michigan University Medical School) protested. Three historical and genealogical societies also protested. The judge granted the petition, stating that the Kabotchniks had qualified as Cabots by complying with a Pennsylvania law passed last April relative to change of names...
...trial balloon rose rapidly through the stagnant political atmosphere of Washington, and at high altitudes struck currents that reveal a danger lest Mr. Harding's 1920 campaign pledges become an election issue in 1924, occasioning a rift in Republican ranks...