Word: lately
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...family political throwback, a Socialist-intellectual. Hilarious was the contest for the Parliamentary seat from Smethwick (TIME, Dec. 27, 1926), wherein Betty Baldwin electioneered for the Conservative candidate and Oliver Baldwin successfully championed the candidacy of a brother throwback-Socialist, Mr. Oswald Mosley, son-in-law of that late pinnacle of Conservatism, Marquess Curzon of Kedleston...
Since times have changed, the King-Emperor accepted both these pieces of advice, last week. Mr. McNeill will take office as Governor General late in January. His appointment does not mean that Irishmen are dissatisfied with crusty but beloved Governor General Timothy Healy. It merely happens that "Tim" has vice-regally represented the Crown for the customary period of five years and that the appointment of his successor is a matter of empire "routine...
...naturally incapable of the functions most commonly associated with its kind. It must be admitted that Funnyman Berry is about ten times funnier than his partner and that the canny reluctance to state the name of the opponents of the French, English and U. S. Troops in the late War adds little to the suspense. Home Made. Johnny Hines, pretending he is a man pretending to be a railroad porter, meets a pretty girl. Then afterward, pretending not to be a restaurant waiter, he bluffs his way to financial and marital success. None of this is nearly as funny...
Engaged. Miss Mariquita S. Villard, niece of Editor Oswald Garrison Villard of The Nation, to Louis Warren Hill Jr., of St. Paul, Minn., who now functions with the Great Northern Railway, built by his grandfather, the late famed James Jerome Hill, and of which his father, Louis Warren Hill, is chairman of the Board of Directors...
Died. Major Reginald Owen, son-in-law of the late William Jennings Bryan, and husband of Ruth Bryan Owen who ran for Congress from Florida in 1926; in Miami, of trench nephritis, contracted during British service in the War. London correspondents erroneously reported the death of Reginald Owen, British actor, now playing in Manhattan with Billie Burke in The Marquise...