Word: late
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ohio held a primary and Hooverized 31 of the state's 51 convention votes, a far larger majority than had been expected. Women's votes were heavily pro-Hoover. The balance of 20 delegates, technically instructed for the late Candidate Willis, were mostly committed to Candidate Lowden as second choice and Non-Candidate Dawes for third. An embarrassing feature was the defeat of Senator Simeon D. Fess as a delegate-at-large. The G. O. P. had already picked him as convention keynoter. But his admission to the convention, it was thought, could be arranged by obtaining...
...great spring Saturdays that sound the clarion call to all the University. It summons a hundred Harvard athletes to court field, or river, and it is safe to say that five thousand Harvard non-combatants are called to the stands and the river-bank, or at least to the late night extras and the Sunday sporting pages...
...summing up of the performance of Mitzi, upon whose shoulders hangs the entire production. This lady, reminiscent of the Duncan sisters in "Topsy and Eva", is really highly amusing. Regardless of when she was at her prime, presumably before what Professor Merriman chooses to call "the late unpleasantness", she still can put her personality across. She knows how to act, and particularly how to act funny...
...late Edwin Webster Sanborn...
...late Chauncey Mitchell Depew, orator, optimist, railroad lawyer, left an estate valued between $5,000,000 and $15,000,000. To Yale University he gave...