Word: late
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There is one question that has been called to my attention of late, owing to the nearness of the election and that is: Does Andrew Mellon still own his distilleries, and make and sell whiskey to the druggists? If you can give me any enlightenment on this subject I will be very grateful...
...More of Lincoln's human understanding and more love for the common people than any man who has been a Presidential candidate since Lincoln's time."-Edwin J. Gross, oldtime friend and supporter of Wisconsin's late Robert Marion La Follette...
Phelps Phelps began petting the voters before he was through college (Yale, Williams). He dances at all functions-motormen's, modists', the Social Register's. His grandfather, the late William Walter Phelps, was (1889-93) U. S. Ambassador to Germany.* The grandson is an ambassador of the sidewalks to the agronomists and small-towners at Albany-fat-faced, loud, generous, shrewd, a smoker of cigars at every waking moment. He professes not even to afford a motorcar in which to battle Matron Pratt...
...American Club at Paris last week entertained a twitterer-Lieut-Col. Philippe-Jean Bunau-Varilla. Many present had known him in the U. S. He had been a co-worker with the late Ferdinand de Lesseps on the first attempt to dig a Panama canal. That project (by the French Campagnie Universelle du Canal de Panama) failed and Capt. Bunau-Varilla tried to persuade the U. S. to build a sea-level canal along the surveyed route. That was 27 years ago. Four years ago he was again in the U. S. This time he wore a wooden stump...
...date of the first match was postponed to Sept. 22 at the Meadow Brook Club, Westbury, Long Island. The reason for the change in date: the ponies of the Argentines have been increasingly coughing, suffering from influenza and laryngitis. So afflicted, ponies become weak, nervous, unpleasantly humored. But, late last week, the condition of the Argentine mounts was improved, and it seemed certain that Sept. 22 would see fast and proper polo...