Word: lief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...house of Representatives accepted the invitation, after curious developments. Representative Olger B. Burtness of North Dakota, large of frame, round and red of cheek, presented a resolution to send five U. S. delegates to Reykjavik next June, to provide them with $50,000 for a statue or memorial of Lief Ericson, Icelandic hero. Republican Floor Leader Tilson called the proposal "one of those handsome things we ought to agree to." The resolution would have gone through with a unanimous cheer, but for the fact that Congressman Burtness, anxious to make a gesture pleasing to his many constituents of Scandinavian extraction...
...Whereas the first white man to set foot on American soil was a native son of Iceland, Lief Ericson, an able and fearless sailor who, ... in the year 1000 discovered the American mainland which feat constitutes the beginning of authentic American history...
...about the stage like a grinning Guava jelly, singing "Whoopee" with suave insinuations. The girls in the chorus, though they danced well, looked, with one, or possibly two, exceptions, as if they had been chosen from the occupants of an East Side subway car before the rush hour. The Lief lyrics, though not Gilbertian, were cheerful; the music of Maurice Yvain was pleasantly plentiful...
...rare fortune yesterday, the upper reaches of the limpid stream resembled the Lido and Bailey's Beach more than a dignified and usually deserted river. Young Cambridge and a liberal assortment of canines disported themselves in the intriguing and unanalyzed waters, making whoopee all around Stillman and transforming Lief Ericson's monument into an apparatus for achieving that dark, rich skin which one doesn't love to have touched but which eventually, it is hoped, will develop into...
Proceeding up Mt. Aubura Street I shall then turn left on Boylston Street and continue along it to Lars Anderson Bridge. This bridge it has been said, was named in honor of a companion of the famous lief Erieson who sailed up the river now known as the Charles and built a house on its banks where he lived until driven away by the universites. Later investigation has, how ever, shown this story to be without truncation...