Word: late
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Duke, 73, retired tobaccoman, has not been out of his house at No. 1076 Fifth Ave., Manhattan, in a year. This fact became known last week at the courtroom in Somerville, N. J., where 107 Texans were squabbling for shares of $2,000,000 in the will of the late James Biddle Duke, brother of Benjamin. Thirty of the Duke millions were left to endow Duke University at Durham, N. C. (TIME...
...late John Pierpont Morgan, conservative, resisted that invasion which came on the heels of the invention of the typewriter and the telephone?the invasion of the businesswoman. But now some 200,000 stenographinae are to be found at work in lower Manhattan. Women had quick fingers, quicker wits. They survived the expensively unfit male bookkeeper, secretary, clerk. Economy forced a new attitude. Ladies turn up at nine a-mornings today at Morgan's itself...
Photographs of Sosthenes Behn are not easily had. But anyone may regard at leisure the groomed, handsome visage of Clarence Hungerford Mackay in any of the thousands of offices of the Postal Telegraph Co. His father, the late John W. Mackay, rough-palmed Irish '49er, found gold in California river beds and bequeathed its power in bank directorates, cable companies, cash. Son Clarence, polished by European tutors and universities, is less the director of 58 corporations than the member of 27 clubs. To his guest, Edward of Wales, he could display with dignity the world's finest collection...
...Miami last week as he drove off for the final round of the La Gorce Open, with $15,000 up in prizes, was bigger than usual. Sarazen was leading the field. People who weren't following him dropped back to watch Cruickshank, a stroke behind. Johnny Farrell started late. Few spectators bothered...
...with "ptomaine poisoning" Jeanne Eagels, actress famed in Rain and of late on tour with Her Cardboard Lover, failed to put in an appearance in Milwaukee, last week, where the play was scheduled to run. Previously she had failed to appear for an entire week in Boston; often before that she had been haphazard in her attentions to business. Because she is undeniably a talented performer, Producers Gilbert Miller and Albert Herman ("Bedroom") Woods had hitherto overlooked the flighty and eccentric behavior of Actress Eagels; but when, after her absence in Milwaukee, she failed to appear in St. Louis, they...