Word: levee
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...without considerable interest that I read Mr. Leve's recent letter to you regarding Moselle and other wines. Leve is a man of well-known connoisseurs and erudition, and I venture to suggest that he could not possibly have made some of the sweeping assertions therein attributed to him. It is difficult for me to conceive, much less believe, that a man of his caliber would willingly lend his name to such troglodytic and heretical statements as "no white wine...can really be said to improve with age," and "most connoisseurs would open their Moselles before three years." I feel...
...somewhat to the east of the Moselles, which does have a somewhat greater staying power; but it must be remembered that no white wine, not even a Montrachet, can really be said to improve with age. It is only the great red wines that do this. Harvey A. Leve...
...Harvey Leve, freshman coach and heir apparent to the head coach position when Bolles moves to the Athletic Director's office, got into the first shell and took the crew for a rigorous pull 2 1/2 miles downstream and piloted them back upstream...
...Social Committee" to meet the demands of what is promising to be a gruelling, but-we-leve-it-after-dark season, has now been elected by the battalion. The election conclave had many of the aspects and all of the noise of a big-time affair. Pryor, Diano and Jaffa will hold the billets of President, Vice-President, and Secretary-Treasurer respectively. Said each of the office holders after his success,--Pryor, "Well, I'll be damned." Diano, "My dear, devoted and loyal constituents--" (Throw him out! Throw him out!--His devoted constituents shouted.) Jaffa--"Now boys, I want...
That night she talked again of war as she went to a foodless and drinkless reception at the Astor. The ballroom was draped with the ancient provincial emblems of the Dutch. Some 4,000 friends of The Netherlands cried "Lang Leve de Koningin" as the Queen walked to her chair on a dais, stiffly waving her white-gloved hand. While everyone else stood up, the monarch remained seated in her chair, told her audience in Dutch: "When ultimately victory is ours and this terrible time belongs to the past, there will rest upon our shoulders the heavy duty of building...