Word: late
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the Democratic National Committee chose Houston, Tex., last week for its 1928 convention city, it was really the choice of a solid North, calculating to coax an uncertain South. San Francisco, Detroit and Cleveland were eager bidders. Houston won, with a small auditorium and ominous late-June climate, for three reasons...
...Governor Dan Moody of Texas was the timely and deciding, if not a really serious, factor. He arrived late, after other bidders had tried to outdo Mr. Jones. Balloting was just about to start when in he burst?34 years old, red haired, grinning unofficially. Mr. Jones brought the committeemen to their feet with a superb gesture and Governor Dan Moody cried, "It is not only the people of Houston who invite you but also the people of Texas...
...imposing New York Giants thus shed a player who ranks in popular imagination with Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, the late Christy Mathewson. Manhattan, irate, demanded reasons. The Giants management sat silent...
...Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, Pope Pius XI, the 260th successor to St. Peter, Bishop of Rome, might well have been somewhat astonished. He would have found, impudently set forth, only trite commonplaces about himself. The only little known fact concerned his predecessor, Pius X, namely that the "undergarments" of the late Pontiff "were badly worn out and patched in many places...
...encyclical also had a more specific effect; this was to dispose once more and perhaps finally of the plans for a union of the Anglican and Roman Catholic Churches, much discussed in the Maline conversations sponsored by Viscount Halifax, long president of the English Church Union, and the late Cardinal Mercier...