Word: lately
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Commander of the Order of Pope Pius IX. The banker, who is a Protestant, is the only living U. S. citizen possessing this order, the one decoration that the Pope bestows on non-Catholics. Usually it is given only to heads of governments or to outstanding public men. The late General Leonard Wood received...
...Hetty Green, the late unique creative financier among women, had forgotten that she had bought a railroad during the great panic of 1893. The Texas Midland, 125 miles long, had completely slipped her mind. She found it one day when she had nothing better to do than paw over some dusty old papers. She sent her son, Colonel Edward Howland Robinson Green, to Terrell, Tex., headquarters of the road, to ascertain its value. It was a long sort, of job, as the Interstate Commerce Commission learned later. The road did not pay. Colonel Green established himself at Terrell, became...
Vacuum has always been generous to stockholders out of veneration for its creator, late Hiram B. Everest,* Rochester, N. Y. farmer, himself a poor man, and generous like all poor...
...bird of Persian mythology would not do. Medieval France was then scanned. A suitably universal monster was found adorning every Gothic Cathedral, fighting off devils. Gargoyle, therefore, became synonymous for lubricating oil wherever Christian church architecture is known. The management of the Vacuum Oil Co., disliking puns, noticed too late that the unfortunate rhyme between "oyle" and oil. Gargoyle was already on countless billboards, luring motorists, drawing business. Last year Vacuum's earnings, it was allowed to be understood last week, were equal to, if not more than the $24,133,655 of 1926, whereas the great Standard...
...inside, inside St. Margaret's, and not to watch as usual from outside the railings. No, "The Duke and Duchess of Romney request the pleasure of the company of Mrs. Beddoes on the occasion of the marriage of their son Wildherne Francis Poole to Janet, daughter of the late. . . ." Thus Janet was plunged irrevocably into the Victorian tradition, and all to provide comfort and stability for her adored sister. Unfortunately Rosalind had no use for such stability. She found Janet's reception rather a dowdy party; the room was very fine with its white walls, shining background...