Word: late
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...women are clever, beautiful and the best dressed in the world, but they have too few babies. In touring the country one sees too few children. With restricted immigration in effect, this looks bad for future population." So said Harold Sidney Harmsworth, Viscount Rothermere, brother and successor to the late British newspaper titan, Lord Northcliffe. Having spoken, Lord Rothermere embarked recently at Manhattan for England...
Married. Miss Emma Charlotte Moody, of East Northfield, Mass., granddaughter of the late Dwight L. Moody; to Dr. Frank Raymond Smith, of Stratford, Conn.; in East Northfield, Mass...
...speaker's stand, containing a gold medal, a scroll and a check for $10,000. Pierre Monteux conducted the Philadelphian orchestra in the absence of its regular leader, Leopold Stokowski, a onetime winner of the Bok Prize. The other winners were all present except for the late Dr. Russel H. Conwell ("Acres of Diamonds") ; there was Samuel S. Fleisher, founder of the Graphic Sketch Club; Charles Custis Harrison, onetime provost of the University of Pennsylvania; Samuel Yellin, master ironworker; Dr. Chevalier Jackson, who "devised" the bronchoscope. Tension in the audience increased as Congressman James M. Beck began to speak...
...Colonies, Porch of the Allies, Thanksgiving Tower, Woodlawn Cathedral, Eight Halls of History. In the past five years not less than 200,000 people have visited the Memorial Chapel. Some of these have been sensible, some have claimed that their ancestors fought in the "battle of Valley Forge." The late President Wilson, referred to it as "the shrine of the American People...
...Late in the afternoon the two prisoners met in a corridor. It was the exercise period. The guards were a few steps away. The other prisoners stood in a huddled circle. William Reid moved suddenly. "Red" Moran felt a sharp jagged blade tearing through clothes, tearing through his flesh...