Word: late
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Divorce Rumored. Mrs. Delphine Dodge Cromwell, daughter of the late Horace E. Dodge (automobiles) of Detroit, famed for her speed boats and her $825,000 pearls, once the possession of Empress Catherine of Russia; from James H. R. Cromwell of Philadelphia...
...citizen and his wife were looking at a photograph of Miss Anne Morgan, 55, idolized daughter of the late John Pierpont Morgan and sister of Banker John Pierpont Morgan, 60, in an advertisement in a morning newspaper. Miss Morgan was publicly endorsing Old Gold ("Not a cough in a carload") cigarets; that is, she had put her signature to a statement alleging that she had taken the blindfold test, smoked four brands of cigarets and found that "the smoothness" of one cigaret was "so obvious." That cigaret turned out to be Old Gold...
...Evidence. Twenty-year-old Michel's wooden pallet stretched narrowly between two seasoned convicts, murderers both. So Michel expected to escape, did he, as soon as he had learned from the "Aces" the finer points of his late thieving trade? Well, so had many another expected, and moreover struggled well on his way to freedom when manhunters tracked him down, and goaded him back to the solitary confinement, disease and starvation of Devil's Island (famed for the incarceration of Dreyfus...
Third Crew Sprints Too Late...
...third crew event of the Henley Regatta, the University boat placed behind Yale and Princeton in a very close contest. The Harvard, oarsmen, rowing a lower stroke than their rivals for most of the distance, sprinted too late and, could not overhaul the leaders in the last furlong. The Eli shell nosed out the Princeton entry by ten feet with the Crimson following a length and a quarter behind. The time was seven minutes and six seconds...