Word: lately
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Moody. "I am Very sorry, Governor, if I am late, but I have just had a session with my dentist," said Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith of New York to Governor Dan Moody of Texas...
...caused cowering, ululations and doomsday prophecies among mankind. But last week, instead of scurrying into caves or cellars, mankind made merry and flocked to the totality belt for observation, lay and scientific. In the British Isles there were eclipse houseparties and a national holiday. Scandinavians, accustomed to staying up late at this season of the midnight sun, redoubled their nocturnal festivities to view a sight that will not again be seen by most of Europe until 1961, by England until...
...Christian Endeavor movement among young people is comparatively recent. The late Rev. Francis E. Clark, who died last May, founded it Feb. 2, 1881, at his Williston Congregational Church in Portland, Me. Members were obliged to pledge themselves to attend weekly prayer meetings of their local society. So sound was Dr. Clark's idea that 80 evangelical religious denominations have sponsored the movement. It has societies in 60 different countries; has more than 3,500,000 members. Of these members 20,000 went to Cleveland last week...
...York Evening Post sent one Kenneth Campbell, reporter, to interview the Stratons last week. He was meticulously observant and took obvious pleasure in relating how he found Pastor Straton in bed late in the afternoon, "clad in an old-fashioned night shirt. . . . From a gas jet at the head of the bed hung Dr. Straton's black waistcoat, from which dangled the medal he won in a college oratorical contest many years...
...Sarah Bernhardt, Ethel Terry and many another famed tragedienne. When Pauline Frederick returned to the legitimate theatre in England recently, she chose it for her play, was rewarded with an ovation (TIME, March 14). In the present revival Carroll McComas will play the title role, supported by Rex Cherryman, late of The Noose cast...