Word: leys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When his chosen few - several of them plucked from Bible Institute and Sunday School teams - arrived at Chicago's Wrig ley Field fortnight ago for their "spring training," they discovered another of Mr. Wrigley's novel ideas. Part of their train ing was a compulsory course at Helena Rubinstein's Gold Coast beauty salon - to learn about makeup, posture and other whatnots usually neglected by lady athletes...
Died. Alex A. Aarons, 52, veteran musicomedy producer (with Vinton Freed-ley: Lady Be Good, Oh, Kay!, Funny Face, Girl Crazy); of a heart attack; in Beverly Hills...
There was better evidence that tubby, slobbery Dr. Robert Ley, Leader of the Nazi Labor Front, was at it again. Dr. Ley, of whom Germans say "Wenn der Ley spricht, regnet's" (When Ley speaks, it rains), provided the evidence in a broadcast from Berlin, during which he also expressed considerable concern for Adolf Hitler's health...
...Ley hiccupped and belched, shouted, muttered, got his sentences mixed up. Not much of his speech was intelligible, but some of it seemed to indicate that his celebration was the result of a session with Hitler. "I saw the Führer yesterday," he shouted thickly. "I had the incredible joy of being with him for the whole day. I can only tell you-" Here Ley's voice broke, but he recovered, went on: "We do not complain, oh Fate! Take whom you will as a sacrifice! . . . But spare us one! Preserve for us the health and strength...
Other Yardlings winning prizes for their essays on some aspect of American history were James E. McNulty, Jr., and Mellvin L. Milliagan, 2nd, who won $25 apiece. Honorably mentioned were William H. Hahn, Jr., and Herbert L. Ley...