Word: lately
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...child I was shy; as a girl I ran hurdle races over the White House furniture; today I do what I please and enjoy it thoroughly. There are certain days that I like to recall: the day that I dined with my favorite monarch, the late King Edward VII . . . the day I was banished to New York from Washington by my father, Theodore Roosevelt, because I had bet on the horse races . . . the day I wore red riding breeches when presented to the Emperor of Korea (it was on this trip to the Orient that my romance with Nicholas Longworth...
Americans who read this exchange of compliments in the press pictured Viscount Gladstone as a young pup, for all his peerage, a loud and foul-mouthed lord. Had Captain Wright rested content with $625 damages, he and his charges against the late Prime Minister would have seemed vindicated. But Captain Wright, having drawn blood, or rather golden damages, tried for more. He brought suit for libel against Viscount Gladstone, who happens not to be "a young pup," is aged...
Testimony. Said Captain Wright: "The late Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone was a gross sensualist. ... At a meeting of the Supreme War Council Lord Milner said of Mr. Gladstone that his policies were governed by 'his seraglio'. . . . Lord Morley once told me that Lord Granville told him he had known five of Queen Victoria's Prime Ministers who had committed adultery. I am sure that Mr. Gladstone must have been one of these.* . . . The actress Lillie Langtry, 'The Jersey Lily,' was well-known in the U. S. to be Mr. Gladstone's mistress. . . . Another was Olga Novikov whom the Tsarist...
...Elena,* Princess of Greece and Rumania, consort of the abdicated Prince Carol. The boy was their five-year-old son, Mihail, now Crown Prince of Rumania. Carol has not returned to reside with them since November, 1925 when he left Rumania to attend the funeral of Alexandra, late Dowager Queen-Empress of Britain...
...wind alone do disciples of the late William Jennings Bryan propose to keep his memory green. Ever since the "trumpet blast" that was "sounded for rallying the believing hosts of the world around their faith," i.e. the Scopes anti-evolution trial (precipitated by anti- Fundamentalists)-ever since the Great Commoner died "on the battlefield" (Dayton, Tenn.), hard-headed men have been promoting a Bryan Memorial University (TIME, Sept. 14, 1925). On a 26-acre tract across the road from the house in which Mr. Bryan breathed his last, this "sacred enterprise" is already under construction. It may be ready...