Word: lately
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Anglo-Saxon energy with untiring activity has translated into actual fact the boldest conceptions of human thought ..." Mayor replied, "Prince, if you said what I think you said, I'm grateful." Also the Mayor remarked (as he had done at Venice the week previous) : "They call me the late mayor of New York but you don't notice me showing up late in Europe. If the boys back home could see this array of glasses, maybe they would understand...
...John Robert Clynes, shockheaded, beady-eyed, a leading Laborite of the moderate wing, thought the only element of surprise in the decision was that it had come so late. Added he: "Some of us have expressed our horror at the shooting of 20 Russians [in Russia] as an act of inexcusable murder. I cannot understand the mentality of those who denounce acts committed in one country and gloss them over when committed in another country. Murder is murder the whole world over...
...partly because the court is still in mourning for the late Emperor Yoshihito, who died last December (TIME, Jan. 3), and partly because there was no disguising the disappointment of the Royal House and the nation in the birth of a second daughter, there will be no great, gay lantern parades, no dancing in the streets, no flowery songs and no flashing oratory, no processions, no fireworks. The new little Princess comes to the Flowery Kingdom unheralded, unsung. Such is the way of the Orient...
Died. Frederick Skiff Field, 44, son of the late famed poet, Eugene Field, of burns received in an auto accident; at Tomahawk, Wis. Nick- named "Daisy" by his father (who imagined that his son's eyes looked up at him like flowers), Frederick Field never forgot the curious merry games his father used to play with him; games in which Daisy was a little rabbit and his father was a big blue bear. When Daisy was a tiny child his father wrote him a letter about "the old blue bear, the lion, the elephant, and the flim-flam...
...time they fought fog. Far south of their course and unable to proceed they surrendered to the fog. In a farmer's field at Washburn, Me., the Sir John Carlmo came down undamaged. ¶ The same day the Royal Windsor jumped up from Windsor, Ontario, and headed east. Late that night a telephone tinkled tidings to tho world from St. Johns, Quebec. The Royal Windsor had landed with one wing afire. The blaze was extinguished. Regretfully Flyers Clarence Schiller and Phil Wood took from the ship a wreath marked "Nungesser-Coli" which they had hoped to drop...