Word: lately
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There was, to begin with, hollow-cheeked, insurgent Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska, where the trip started. He it is who is supposed to guard the Progressive mantle of the late, great LaFollette. The Omaha speech on farm relief received a nod of Norris approval. Of the Denver waterpower speech, Senator Norris said: "... Great! . . . We're up against the greatest monopoly, the greatest attempt at control of great resources, ever undertaken since the days of Jesus Christ!" The Omaha World-Herald, daily newspaper of the Brown Derby's advisor, onetime Senator Gilbert M. Hitchcock of Nebraska...
...years ago and one of his parents had Mayflower ancestors. He is one of those persons who has been vaguely "associated with" and "closely allied with" various famous people. His biography gives a onetime State Engineer of New York, the Board of Supervisors of San Francisco, and the late Major-General Leonard Wood, as references. He "has travelled in many parts of the world, sometimes by direction of a President of the United States." Also: "He has attended at different times the services of almost every one of the major religious sects...
...primary election last April, last week brought indictments of a police lieutenant, eight racketeers and a large, dark figure who had seemed destined to gain fame in the councils of the nation-Oscar DePriest, first Negro alderman of Chicago, nominee of the G. O. P. to succeed the late famed Martin Barnaby Madden in the House of Representatives. It was not the first time Mr. DePriest had been indicted. In 1916 he was accused of handling tainted money, but the charge languished and died in Chicago's political limbo. This time the charge was conspiracy to protect gambling...
Across the Hippodrome stretched a 100-foot banner-slogan: Stanley for Stability! Excited delegates knew that Conservative Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin was about to speak and officially open the national campaign. When it seemed that beloved Stanley Baldwin was going to be just a bit late, as usual, the Conference vented high spirits by singing to an old, rollicking tune a new and most significant campaign song...
Florid, big-boned Baron Dalziel of Kirkcaldy, kinsman of Europe's late Sleeping Car Tycoon Baron Dalziel of Wooler (TIME, April 30), has now said: "I have long ago given up trying to get English people to pronounce 'Dalziel' correctly. . . . The late Lord Dalziel also accustomed himself to let the wrong pronunciation pass uncorrected. . . . He ceased to maintain the tradition that 'Dalziel' should be pronounced...