Word: late
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...family, besides plumply placid Mrs. Smith, is the Nominee's eldest daughter, trim, slim Mrs. Emily Smith Warner. At El Reno, Okla., last week, she substituted for him when Governor Johnston and a welcoming party boarded the Smith Special at 8 a. m. "My father was up very late preparing for his speech tonight," she said. "I know you will excuse him. We thought it best not to wake him early...
...extremely modest means of Viscount Byng of Vimy, famed War hero and now Commissioner of Police at Scotland Yard (TIME, July 16), were augmented last week when some ?750,000 ($3,650,000) was left to Viscountess Byng by her late, eccentric, oleaginous Greek uncle, M. Pandeli Ralli...
Last week, Hugo Hermann Stinnes Jr., son of the late Hugo Stinnes, posted bail of that amount for release from a Berlin prison...
While this long and shiny fable professes no Marxian solemnity, it is less silly than most operetta plots. Nor is it without a laugh; Gus Shy (whose grandfather, the late Solomon Scheu, was a onetime Mayor of Buffalo) is very funny as the valet of the hero. The leading lady, Evelyn Herbert, is entirely charming in appearance, although she has a pretty voice...
...late great, hard Frank Andrew Munsey (1854-1925), amalgamator of newspapers, had a strict rule in all his editorial offices that there should be NO SMOKING. This caused many reporters to sneak out of sight...