Word: lately
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said Prince Tokugawa in his brief speech of acceptance: "The peaceful diplomacy of the late Commodore Perry enabled the United States to accomplish more in opening up the Orient to trade than other nations could achieve by force." The Perry relics, promised Prince Tokugawa, will be cherished and displayed in the Imperial Museum at Tokyo...
...jaunty but therapeutically casual days of the 17th century two men often sat late over their wine cups. The one was dressed in silks and at his side a slim sword swung. The other's garb was black, but his eyes gleamed in candlelight. Sword-swinger was England's Charles I; the eyes gleamed in the head of Dr. William Harvey, no ordinary leech. Last week 100 chosen doctors from the world over gathered in London to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the royal leech's book* which first told the world that blood completes a circle...
William H. Vanderbilt, son of the late Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, great-great-grandson of the Railroader-Commodore, part owner of an airline between Miami and Havana...
...biggest crowd ever seen in Christie's auction rooms assembled last week for the first day of the auction of the late Sir George Lindsay Holford's collection. The throng included Dutch bidders eager to retrieve native masterpieces, English bidders eager to keep the best of the Holford collection in England, and American bidders, most powerful of all, who were only eager to buy the pictures and sell them for gain. When the sale began these rival groups sent prices up at the rate of $15,000 a minute. The first 60 paintings went...
Sued for Divorce. William H. Vanderbilt, son of the late Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, and a director of the new Transcontinental Air Transport, Inc. (see page 22); by Mrs. Emily O'Neil Davies Vanderbilt; at Newport, R. I. She charged neglect to provide...