Word: late
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...million pounds?elevates Sir Edward Berry still higher in his rank with the two greatest newspaper proprietors of England. Both these men chance to be in the U. S. at present. They are: 1) Harold Sidney Harmsworth, Viscount Rothermere (Daily Mail, Daily Mirror and Evening News), brother of the late and greatest British news titan, Viscount Northcliffe; and 2) William Mawell Aitken, Baron Beaverbrook (Daily Express and Evening Standard), a self-made Canadian, still sometimes referred to as "that bounder", but generally accorded the respect due a man who has made a cool £1,000,000 in business...
...endeavored to stop the inrush of water with our hands, but too late...
...syndicate which bought the Telegraph last week is that of Sir William Berry, who controls the Daily Graphic, Sunday Times, and a great bloc of Midland newspapers, and who last year acquired a large interest in the publishing properties of the late Sir Edward Hutton...
...longer German but lies in the wedge of Polish territory which was driven through Prussia to the Baltic by the Treaty of Versailles. With his own province thus a knife in the back of his fatherland, Old Paul von Hindenburg has begun to display marked sympathy, of late, for East Prussia- that part of Germany which is divided from the rest by the Polish knife. Last week the Herr President showed the tempo of his feeling by arriving with ponderous unexpectedness at a joint meeting of the German and Prussian cabinets, called to decide whether the Reich would extend...
...Lone Eagle. The transoceanic flights of last summer have been covered by a multitude of cinemas. The Lone Eagle is one of the more petty. It describes the aeronautical antics of an aviator in the late war who. disproves a rumor of cowardice by winning a desperate air duel and a French girl. Film directors are fast learning how to make fainthearted habitues of the cinema grow dizzy at the sensation of being high up in the air. In this, The Lone Eagle is successful. The Lovelorn. On the staff of al most all important U. S. news-sheets there...