Word: lew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since the days when its left-handed Lew Tendler used to fight Lightweight Champion Benny Leonard so regularly that the names of the two fighters sounded like the title of a corporation, Philadelphia has always had at least one first-rate functioning fighter of one sort or another. Tendler, now a 180-lb. restaurateur, is the manager of Philadelphia's latest pugilistic hope, a large blond Italian named Al Ettore. Without fighting much outside his home town, Ettore had by last summer managed to get enough local following to justify a bout with famed Joe Louis, who is trying...
When the literary history of the present era is eventually written, the strange and flighty career of Upton Sinclair is likely to provide one of its most picturesque footnotes. He is as much a literary oddity and popular favorite as General Lew Wallace, who wrote Ben Hur while Governor of New Mexico, and who was distracted from his romance by the lawless exploits of Billy the Kid. Belonging to that class of writers who, unable to choose between the world of affairs and the literary life, have attempted both and succeeded in neither, Sinclair is known in political circles...
...former braintruster who openly criticized the President's new tax program in his magazine, Today, is (1 Lew Douglas, 2 Raymond Moley, 3 Paul Warburg, 4 Donald Richberg, 5 T. Jefferson Coolidge...
What Ballet Master George Balanchine and his collaborator Paul Tchelitchev offered was the most inept production that present-day operagoers have witnessed on the Metropolitan stage. The bereaved Orpheus was personified by Lew Christensen, a tall, strapping young man from Portland, Ore., who wore black trunks, black mitts, a black cape and a lyre on his back, expressed his sorrow by thrusting his fists into the air, swaying before a funereal mound which could easily have covered scores of Eurydices. Muscular William Dollar, a native of St. Louis, leaped into the picture as Amor (Love), wearing white tights and great...
Twentieth Century-Fox boasts that its Lew Pollack (Charmaine, Two Cigarets in the Dark) can produce a song on any subject if he is given an hour's notice. But Warners' boast is bigger. Musical cinemas seemed doomed until Harry Warren and Al Dubin turned out the tunes for Forty-Second Street, went on to do Footlight Parade, Gold Diggers of 1933, Wonder Bar, Twenty Million Sweethearts. Fortnight ago their Lullaby of Broadway (Gold Diggers of 1935) was voted the best song of the year by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (TIME, March...