Word: lately
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...late Ludwig Mond owned many an old painting - an early Raphael, a Botticelli, a Titian. These he bequeathed as the Mond Collection, contingent upon his wife's death, to the National Gallery in London...
That night, the legends of the sea, so long tamed, so long unremembered except in the late talk at coast town barrooms, leapt up out of the racing mountains of the bay. A tremendous wind walked through the black towers of the rain, a hungry foam covered the teeth of the Irish rocks; all night long the clouds, like vague white tigers, galloped across wild hills. The next morning, under a bright sun and a wind still swift, the storm's damage was revealed. Sweeping westward through England, it had demolished houses in Lancashire; in Ireland cables had been...
...married the wealthy and charming Grafin Marie Luise Strachwitz (strarkveets), daughter of the late Graf (Count) Adalbert Strachwitz von Gross-Zauche und Comminetz. They have a daughter, aged four...
...Rosa Raisa), Monna Vanna and Sapho (Mary Garden), Linda di Chamounix (Toti Dal Monte and Tito Schipa), Loreley (Claudia Muzio). New singers are Eleanor Elderkin, Olga Kargau, Leone Kruse, Lucille Meusel, Delia Samoiloff, sopranos; Elinor Mario, contralto; John Sample, tenor; Eugenic Sandrini, Heinrich Schlusnus, Robert Ringling (son of the late circus proprietor Charles Ringling), baritones; Chase Baromeo, bass. Maria Yurieva and Vechslav Swoboda will head the new ballet. Giorgio Polacco is again musical director, Roberto Moranzoni, Henry G. Weber and Polacco the conductors, Herbert Johnson manager. Good news to President Samuel Insull and to the 2,400 citizens who guarantee...
...anagram, of course from "Alfred Mond." He likes to toy with his name (Mondson, monsol) as much as did the late (1851-1925) soap maker Viscount Leverhulme (Lux, Rinso), who was born William Hesketh Lever and married Elizabeth Ellen Hulme...