Word: lester
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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AFTER NOON?Susan Ertz?Appleton ($2). A burnt husband shuns the altar. Charles Lester, left with vivid twin daughters by a flighty runaway wife, guards his British independence, his tolerance and intelligence from further exposure. But an American widow's frank piquancy is too much for him. He marries her, and when she really learns that clinging-vine love is not for folk walking erect in the afternoon of life, they enter upon a happy ever-after. It is a cool, delightful study in mature emotions from the poised pen of the author of Nina and Madame Claire...
...Lester Ginsburg...
Thus Major Lester D. Gardner, editor of Aviation (weekly). For three months he had been investigating the activities of U. S. pilots and flying companies, had found that 344 men flew a total of 6,283,730 miles, or eight times the distance flown last year by Imperial Airways (the British line connecting London and Paris). Some 700 more licensed pilots had yet to report their 1925 mileages. It was estimated that these would bring the U. S. total well above ten million miles. Having said his say, Major-Editor Gardner 'sailed to explore 8,000 miles of European...
...same issue you took the space, though, to portray and illustrate with a photograph closely resembling the missing link, the prowess of one John Lester Johnson-as if that were of prime importance. Instead of giving all of the worthwhile news of the world, you seem to gloat over the fact that the said Johnson knocked out the teeth of a taxicab operator who happened to incur his displeasure-thereby showing your true colors-catering to the lowest animal instinct-brute force...
...down in front of Reuben's restaurant on Upper Broadway, Manhattan, struts a big black man in a longtail coat. He is John Lester Johnson, sparring partner of many fighters, who once was drubbed by Jack Dempsey. Now his life is free and easy; he looks the white folks over as they pass through the door, keeps out the trashy ones, lets in the hungry ones, bows to the haughty ones, spreads his smile. Last week, while he stood displaying his buttons, a taxicab snarled down the street and stopped before him. Doorman Johnson helped two people out, waited...