Word: late
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...information which Mr. Knopf sells is done up in a book form and is called The Bon Viant's Companion, or How to Mix Drinks. It is the work of the late Professor Jerry Thomas, onetime bartender at the Metropolitan Hotel, Manhattan, and the Planters' House, St. Louis. Professor Thomas (whose parents wanted him to be a preacher) first published How to Mix Drinks in 1862. It quickly went through six large printings; Professor Thomas became a world-figure; it was said that President Grant, having quaffed the Professor's BLUE BLAZER after playing croquet, gave him a cigar...
...significant bit of "crow-eating" because the People's Legislative Service is the voice of LaFollettism in Wisconsin. It was founded by the late great Robert Marion LaFollette as the official organ of his Progressive Republican movement. The statement came, moreover, two days after an editorial declaration for Smith by the Madison, Wis., Capital-Times. The backer and chief stockholder of the Capital-Times is Alfred Thomas Rogers, law-partner of the late great La-Follette. Another stockholder is Senator Robert Marion LaFollette...
...James Matthew Barrie, elfin creator of Peter Pan, stood up at a bazaar, in Jedburgh, Scotland, last week, and solemnly informed his audience that on the previous night he had walked hand in hand through their village with the late Mary Queen of Scots (died...
...soon life-size cinemagorillas were capering, fighting, leaping high, and giving suck to their young before the gaze of King Albert and Queen Elizabeth. The films were taken in the Belgian Congo, where Dr. Derscheid and Mrs. Akeley have been laboring to complete a suitable memorial to her late husband, Afric explorer Carl Akeley. The memorial is a stoutly fenced and protected park with a massive gateway above which swings a sign: The Gorilla Sanctuary...
Outside of Soviet Russia "BullNecked Alex" is better known as the late Tsar of all the Russias Alexander III (reigned...