Word: lester
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Characters: Patriarch Jeeter Lester (Henry Hull), a bent, rickety, boastful, obscene, stealing, lying scion of an old family who has discovered that semi-starvation is the only penalty for doing nothing; his wife Ada (Margaret Wycherly), mother of 16 of whom 13 have forgotten her; her unmanageable harelipped daughter Ellie May, tortured with the abnormal appetites of the deformed; her golden-haired daughter Pearl who somehow manages to remain a wife in name only; Pearl's normal husband Lov who bought her for $7, loves her vainly, beats her moderately; Jeeter and Ada's remaining son Dude whose...
...tentatively accepted are as follows: Cecil M. Arrowsmith '37, C. Henry Baum Jr. '37, Charles N. Belcher '37, Richard B. Cooper 2GB, Donald W. Davis Jr. '37, Ethan A. Dennison '37, Thomas S. Everett '37, Donald W. Fiske '37, Fred P. Glike '37, Lester J. Hershon '35, Edwin A. Hills '37, Gorden S. Hughes '37, Harold E. Jahn '36, John M. Lovejoy '37, Edwin A. Meyer '37, Thomas P. Myles '37, Edwin K. Packard '37, Paul W. Sears '37, Raymond Sobel '37, John L. Stegmaier '37, Joseph G. Sutton Jr. '37, Edward C. Tenney '37, Charles Thorndike...
...Longwood. In the first set, young Frank Andrew Parker was erratic and his tall partner, Francis Xavier Shields, had to make most of the impossible gets, the titanic smashes that finally won, 13-11. Wily George Lott and willowy Lester Stoefen, smoothing out the soft spots in his game as the match wore on, concen- trated on Parker in the next two sets and won them both at 9-7. In the fourth set, Shields & Parker worked the score up to 3-all. Then Lott won his serve, Parker lost his, and Stoefen won his-for set match...
...them a much less dubious advantage when the match began because Bell has trouble standing up even when the footing is dry and firm. After winning without difficulty, 6-3, 6-3, 7-5, Crawford & McGrath came up against the newly organized team of sly George Lott and towering Lester Stoefen. Stoefen & Lott concentrated their attack on 17-year-old McGrath's two-handed backhand. He missed 14 out of 17 chances in the first set, improved later but not enough to play offensive tennis against the fastest combination in the tournament. Their victory...
...gallon for every gallon of these waters sold by the corporation and provided in addition that, after a profit of $30,000, the State should receive 60% of all further profits. The lease was drawn by the eminent counsel of the Commission, Judge C. C. Lester...