Word: late
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Publisher Hearst was just 24 hours late. President Hoover had already made a move no less Hooveresque than Rooseveltian...
Great was the friendship between the late great Theodore Roosevelt and Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, onetime (1912-18) British Ambassador to the U. S. Last fortnight were published letters to and from Sir Cecil, among them, illuminating dark spots in history, some 25,000 new words of Rooseveltiana.† Wrote President Roosevelt...
...Bethlehem Chapel of the unfinished Washington Cathedral gathered 94 Protestant Episcopal Bishops, to elect a successor to the late Presiding Bishop John Gardner Murray (TIME...
Married. William W. Willock Jr., 21, heir to $120,000,000, grandson of Pittsburgh's late Steelman Benjamin Franklin Jones Jr. (Jones & Laughlin Co.); and one Adelaide Ingebretsen, 20, Willock household chambermaid, lately of Norway; at Oyster Bay, L. I. They met while he was tinkering in his machine shop on his father's East Norwich, L. I., estate. Said he: "My father had a good time getting where he is, and I can have a good time with Adelaide, too." Said she: "I liked him because he was so democratic with all the servants." Willock Sr. declared...
Died. Right Hon. Thomas Power ("Tay Pay") O'Connor, 81, "Father of the House of Commons"; of septic rheumatism; in London. For 44 years he held the same seat in Parliament; for 62 years he was a journalist. He was a wholehearted defender of the late great Thomas Parnell, imprudent Irish statesman. He gave George Bernard Shaw his first job as a music critic. Three weeks ago, illness forced him to suspend the last of his publications, T. P.'s & Cassell's Weekly (TIME...