Word: late
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Behind this announcement loomed the fact that the reactionary parties to which Ludendorff and Tirpitz belong have dwindled vastly in prestige, of late, and may well be reduced to impotence if the forthcoming election shows a now widely prophesied shift to the left...
...nation is not so ready to accept the dictatorship of Vintila Bratiano, a single-track pedantic conservative, as it was to obey his late brother Jon Bratiano, that born dictator and multitalented statesman (TIME, Dec. 5). Moreover the 60,000 waiting, shuffling peasants must have been a strong reminder that if the House of Bratiano had ever permitted a fair election to be held in Rumania during the past decade, it would certainly have been swept out of power by the peasant party. Faced by such facts would Vintila Bratiano bend now or break later? The peasants munched their rations...
Rumanians learned of the parting with dour thoughts, Jugoslavs with joy. Reason: Queen Marie of Jugoslavia carried home to Belgrade in her special train, last week, documents transferring to her a huge cash legacy from her late father, King Ferdinand of Rumania (TIME, Aug. i). Generous, the bequest amounts to 80,000,000 lei ($4,800,000), a sour grape for Rumanians, a plump plum for Jugoslavs...
...contrast, the bequests to Marie of Rumania from her late husband, are not in cash but in the form of a life tenancy of Cotroceni, her favorite palace in Bucharest, plus barely sufficient life grants and stipends to keep the wolf a decent, royal distance from her door. Therefore, the departure of Marie of Jugoslavia, figuratively bearing 80,000,000 lei, must have tried her mother's nerves. So serene and queenly is Marie of Rumania, however, that two days later she was confiding optimistically to correspondents...
Gloria Caruso (8-year-old daughter of the late tenor, Enrico Caruso) was awarded an income of $12,000 a year for her maintenance and education, by Chancellor Edwin R. Walker of a Trenton, N. J., court. The moneys will be paid by the Victor Talking Machine Co. as part of the royalties from her father's records. Since his death in 1921, these royalties have totaled $741,449, of which $422,981 were proceeds from the year...