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Who Was Who: 5000 BC - 1914 Biographical Dictionary of the Famous and Those Who Wanted to Be by Unknown
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LEE and PERKINS, discoverers of Worcestershire sauce and royal
saucerers to the king.

LEHAR, Frank, the man who assisted the Merry Widow to make her
debut. Also was the press agent for Mr. Maxim, of Paris.
Ambition: To find another widow.

LEONORE, became famous because she had a lover who left her
with a good song.

LEOPOLD, King, of the Congo and Belgium. Has not been dead
long enough for historians to make him famous. Ambition:
Song, women, and wine. Recreation: Wine, women, and song.
Address: Several in Brussels. Epitaph: Quantum Mutatus Ab
Illo.

LIBERTY, a huge lady who guards New York harbor, and welcomes
Italy and Poland to the United States.

LIMBURGER, of Germany. Manufacturer of a self-advertising
cheese.

LIPTON, Sir Thomas, a knighted Irishman who advertised tea with
Shamrocks, and one of the men of his race who did not enter
politics or the police force. Ambition: That cup.

LISZT, Frank, a piano player who wore long hair, wrote music,
and played the piano.

LLOYD, the man who will insure anything except the prospects
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