Word: lester
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Levinthals gave their people rabbis, the last two of them Bernard Louis Levinthal, at 74 the "Dean of the Orthodox Rabbinate" in the U. S., and his son, Israel Herbert Levinthal, director of the Brooklyn Jewish Centre. The succession was broken when the only male in the present generation, Lester Lazar Levinthal, went to Harvard to study law. Though Helen Hadassah Levinthal could not take her brother's place, she was guided in her studies by a Jewish precept: " 'Study the law for its own sake'-that is, for its richness and beauty, the intellectual pleasure...
John Radford Abbet, Jr., George Augustus Barnard, 3rd, Robert Adams Bastille, Richard Milton Bloch, John Lodge Cady, Robert Manley Chase, Francis Lester Dawson, Henry Hinckley Dearing, Jr., Emil Ludwig Ebert, Norman Clifford Farnlof, John Reed Friar, Robert Loring Glass...
...League of Nations High Commissioner for Danzig is Dr. Karl Burckhardt, a Swiss professor of law whom Führer Hitler, in his last speech, called "incidentally a man of extraordinary tact." Dr. Burckhardt's "tact" consists largely of a do-nothing silence. Unlike his predecessor, fiery Sean Lester of Eire, who barked long and hard about the Nazis' repeated violations of Danzig's Constitution, Commissioner Burckhardt has uttered public words in Danzig only once and then subtly to quote from an inscription on a Danzig building: "The high things must be kept high...
...members who were just taken into the Clubs are: Dana W. Atchley, Jr. '39. Chester C. d'Autrement '41, Lester D. Berger, Jr. '40, Stan Brown '41, Gifford Kitteredge '40, Stan Brown '41, Gifford Kitteredge '40, Joseph T. Knowles '42, Irving M. Shepard '39, Michael Levin '42, S. Vaughan ocC., Francis W. Scofield '40, Llewellyn Vorley '41, Richard D. Whittemore '41, William M. Wood, 3rd '42, and John H. Wulsin...
...Lester Stevens' "Center of the Beach" is one of the most complete embodiments of decisive power and convincing color in the exhibit. His water, mountains, and buildings are handled in a manner which boldly but without exaggeration emphasizes the essential characteristics of each. Despite Stevens' clarity and firm solidity, his paintings seem very natural, in fact so natural that it is almost possible for you to feel your way into them. Nevertheless, he avoids the dangerous pitfall of travel-poster sensationalism which has in many cases been the Waterloo of other painters who have worked from the game point...