Word: leverton
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...lightning rod for controversy during the presidential campaign, but it is not a litmus test for patriotism. Francis Scott Key wrote of the Stars and Stripes waving "o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave," not o'er the Brooks Brothers lapel. Tracy Leverton, Vienna...
...newly divided. She lives just outside the zone and will now reconsider routine trips to the grocery store or friends' houses. Tory M.P. Michael Fabricant predicts administrative chaos and has vowed to go to jail rather than pay the fine if he ever gets unfairly penalized. And the undertakers Leverton & Sons, who have to cross the charging boundary at least once a day to collect corpses from hospitals, are resigned to passing the charge on to their customers. Livingstone himself is taking the long view. "I recall the sackfuls of hate mail I got when I first suggested the British...
...Helen Hayes, Eva Le Gallienne, Alfred Lunt, actors; John Gasson, John Hanrahan, Joseph Wood Krutch, Burns Mantle, Ruth Pickering, critics and editors; Edward Goodman, Harry Wagstaff Gribble, Worthington Miner, Philip Moeller, Antoinette Perry, Leo Strasborg, directors; A. M. Drummond of Cornell University, SamSawyer Falk, of Syracuse University, Garrett H. Leverton of Northwestern University, E. C. Mabie of the University of Iowa, Allardyce Nicoll of Yale University, Frank Hurburt O'Hara of the University of Chicago, Arthur Hobson Quinn of the University of Pennsylvania, Randolph Somerville of New York University, educators...
...plays; but, no flapper, Etta always flops. Her poverty returns, consigns her to rooms in Chelsea where she lives with her cousin, Stocky. Etta is straitlaced, but Stocky is voluptuously convex. One day Etta, returning from an employment agency unemployed, snatches a boy out of the path of Mr. Leverton's car. Flowers follow, and Mr. Leverton follows the flowers. Just when Etta has succeeded in arousing Mr. Leverton's interest (he is a wealthy theatrical man), Stocky barges into the room. Mr. Leverton has interests other than professional, cannot take his eyes off Stocky's luscious shape. Though both...