Word: late
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chivalrous and patriotic bent fetched dejected sighs, last week, at an authoritative report that the jaunty King Alfonso XIII has been constrained to consult the Vatican with a view to obtaining annulment of his union with Queen Victoria Eugénie, a tall and regal granddaughter of the late, dumpy British Queen-Empress Victoria...
...pretense is kept up that the Prince of the Asturias is a "gentleman farmer" much interested in raising crops and breeding hogs; but most of his prolonged sojourns upon his estates are passed in pallid relaxation. Moreover, an inflammation of His Royal Highness' joints has set in of late...
...columnist. His whims had upset the World routine; but his stuff had a following. Last August, he came to a stalemate with Publisher Ralph Pulitzer of the World because he insisted on writing very, very pinkish words on the Sacco-Vanzetti case (TIME, Aug. 22). It was not until late in December that Mr. Broun's column again appeared in the World. Meanwhile, he took to writing-and still does-a page in The Nation (small but earnestly liberal weekly...
...examination was thoroughly academic, covering English literature from the earliest Anglo-Saxon poetry down to Thomas Hardy, with only a few questions on William Shakespeare or the late 19th century writers. One question was to "show by an analysis of the content, style or diction of three of the following passages in what ways they are characteristic of their authors or of the times in which they were written." The passages were taken from William Langland, Edmund Spenser, Samuel Johnson, Charles Lamb, Lord Byron...
...late Dr. Florenz Ziegfeld, who was the founder and president of the Chicago Musical College...