Word: lately
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Work on the proposed $ 1,500,000 enlargement of Langdell Hall will begin late this month or early in June, it was announced yesterday. The plans call for additions to Langdell Hall which will make the building approximately three times its present size and will give Harvard University a law school plant without a peer in the world...
Barnhart, who is president of the Harvard Democratic Club, made the keynote speech, calling for a return to Wilsonian ideals and a cessation of government by and for monopolies. At the mention of Wilson's name, a picture of the late ex-President was unveiled and greeted with prolonged cheering. Barnhart's attacks upon the policy of isolation and corruption in government also brought aplause...
...life of the average Italian citizen has undergone such severe regulation of late that he scarcely dares kiss his wife or buy a shirt without consulting the latest edict on that subject issued by his benevolent government, now impersonated by Mussolini. But for a man with the capacity for government possessed by that dictator, human beings and their actions do not offer sufficient scope for action. From them be now turns to a lesser form of life and decrees the abolition of the common house-fly, a creature that infests Rome no less than any other city. Every citizen will...
...reflect that almost every dead U. S. producer of gay, tinkling dramatics has died without funds. Instead, he reflected that an airplane, driven by Bernt Balchen, had just made a record driving from Staten Island to Detroit; that the airplane was the very one in which the late Floyd Bennett had tried to reach Greenly Island, and that it contained, by a fortunate exception in the regulations made especially for him, Marie Marrifield, one of his dancers, who was hurrying to see a sick sister. Ziggy reflected also that next autumn, in Manhattan, he would have two simultaneous Manhattan productions...
...midnight, Bentham returns, not very "Welcome Home" from six years of South America, lets himself into his boyhood brownstone house, where not even the Irish caretaker is stirring. Memories of his late irascible father haunt him as he climbs to his old room which is filled with prep-school photos and trophies and the heavy perfume of flowers. In the sudden electricity, the most beautiful girl he ever saw sits bolt upright in the middle of his old bed, and orders him out of the house. He returns next day to find her vanished. But Author Miller can be relied...