Word: lately
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Awarded annually from a fund left by the late Sir Henry Bessemer (1813-98), inventor of the Bessemer blast furnace for converting pig iron into steel...
Though these phrases rang out against Britain, observers were confident that no effective steps to enforce them could be taken by fledgling Prime Minister Nahass. True he is the successor of the late famed Zaghlul Pasha who forged and created the Wafd; but Nahass Pasha, wafded into power, is scarcely a match for lean-limbed, steely-eyed Baron Lloyd...
Government. "The Government of Russia is in some ways organized like that of New York City," declares Mr. Lee. "Stalin, as the head of the Communist Party, is the 'Charlie Murphy' of Russia, and he has many of the characteristics of the late Mr. Murphy, the chief of them being that he works silently and away from the public gaze. . . . The immediate destiny of Russia is in his hands...
...eloquent in speech, did lawful battle in a Cincinnati courtroom with Charles Evans Hughes, fair, bushy of beard, fond of animals, deliberate in speech. Mr. Hughes was attorney for Mrs. Josephine Scripps, of Miramar, Calif., who was suing for at least $6,000,000 of the estate of the late E. W. Scripps, founder of the Scripps-Howard chain of newspapers. Mr. Baker was representing the defendant, Robert Paine Scripps, trustee of the estate. In summing up his argument, Mr. Baker quoted at length from King Lear. Mr. Hughes rebutted that he would not dally with the "law reports...
...late Amy Lowell, poetess, left an estate of $843,555 when she died on May 12, 1925. Last week it became known that she had willed $627,000 to Harvard University, of which her brother, A. Lawrence Lowell, is president...