Word: late
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hound and Horn has of late been on the lookout for material for its pages from the pens of Harvard undergraduates and its efforts in this respect achieve notable success in the current issue. Of course it has no competition on the Cambridge scene and undergraduates seldom achieve the more established reviews, but, even so, to publish a poem as distinguished as Mr. J. R. Agee's "Anne Garner" is a rare bit of luck. It is inconceivable that any editor in his right mind should reject...
...yardstick of political power. A Harvard graduate of good family, the late Boies Penrose (1860-1921) climbed the Republican ladder of Pennsylvania to serve 24 years in the U. S. Senate, where Death found him chairman of the potent Finance Committee. Long a Republican National Committeeman, from his sick bed in Philadelphia he helped dictate the Harding nomination in 1920 over the long-distance telephone to Chicago. He wrote a scholarly history of Philadelphia's city government. The Penrose sandwich (graham bread, tongue, lettuce, tomato) is still a classic item in the Senate restaurant...
...Chief went downstairs to breakfast alone. The rest of the family was late. Afterwards Mr. Justice Stone dropped in for a chat. A truck came up with two sacks of mail-presents for The Chief, which were not opened...
...three persons designated to receive a peerage one has died in the meantime. No matter. The dead man's son, Urban R. Broughton, will receive that to gain which his late, rich father, Urban H. Broughton, perpetrated so many philanthropies-including the donation of Ashridge Park to the nation...
...would come in late and strewing his clothes all over the room would thus make it impossible for his roommates to overlook the fact that he had been to a party. When he arose at noon he would regale them with wondrous tales of his experiences. But he never could understand his roommates,--that was the one smirch on his college life...