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1893–1971, American movie actor, b. Burchard, Kans. Lloyd was famous for his comic portrayals of a wistful innocent with horn-rimmed glasses who blu...
1859–1952, American philosopher and educator, b. Burlington, Vt., grad. Univ. of Vermont, 1879, Ph.D. Johns Hopkins, 1884. He taught at the universi...
(Leon Bismarck Beiderbecke) (b ´d rb k) (KEY) , 1903–31, American jazz cornetist, pianist, and composer, b. Davenport, Iowa. Mainly self-taught, he...
(l ´m ks) (KEY) , 1867–1948, American folklorist, b. Goodman, Miss. Lomax’s first book, Cowboy Songs (1910), contained for the first time in prin...
1891–1953, English philosopher. He became head of the department of philosophy at Birbeck College, Univ. of London, in 1930. As a rationalist, he wa...
(kl n´th z) (KEY) , 3d cent. B.C., Greek philosopher, head of the Stoic school following Zeno....