Word: lately
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...park, the parade behind the Vice-Presidential motor proved to be incredibly small. All told the audience that assembled numbered scarcely 200. The Evanstonians had, apparently, slipped off golfing, bathing, picknicking, rubbernecking that day, or were all sleeping late. The Vice President was vexed, and Mayor Bartlett, too. They scowled at the paltry assemblage, left the speakers' stand without a syllable, drove home...
...Governor Fred R. Zimmerman of Wisconsin, who in 1924 was part of his State's "bolt" from the convention that nominated Calvin Coolidge to the skirmishers who later nominated the late La-Follette. Governor Zimmerman, prodigal, visited President Coolidge at Brule, Wis. (see p. 7). Governor Zimmerman, candidate for reelection, began opening Hoover-Zimmerman clubs. Governor Zimmerman said that after the eight-year (1912-1920) Democratic régime in Washington "it is but a miracle that there is anything at all left of America to be corrupt with." This was a rebuttal of current Democratic talk about...
...Southwest and California. He caught a black bass at Fort Worth, Tex.; posed with sombrero and steer horns; crossed the Mexican border to see the hard-boiled racing town of Juarez; received the Mayor of Colton, Calif., in pajamas; arrived in Los Angeles "not feeling very well." Two hours late for a luncheon, he told Los Angeles that California was going to go Democratic, that there was to be a national Smith landslide. He went to Hollywood and lay abed late...
...little virtuous who kept their eyes off her," and Hague whose early life had known many lands and many women. No doubt the accepted method would consider this data essential to "atmosphere," but Viola Meynell holds to an earlier tradition of beauty. For she is daughter of the late Alice Meynell, poet and essayist...
...almost his most prolific year, the late John Singer Sargent completed 31 portraits and 18 other pictures. One of the former was a Portrait of Mrs. Arthur Knowles and Children, a gayly sentimental painting showing the pretty Mrs. Knowles lounging on a sofa, embracing two affectionate little boys who nuzzled against her. Less cool than most of Sargent's glimpses at maternity, charming because of its humanity rather than, like most Sargents, because of brilliant artifice, the picture was kept in the Knowles house and secreted from the public. Last week it arrived, for popular inspection, in the Howard...