Word: lately
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...leading citizens of Wisconsin both of whom talk well, talked last week: John J. Elaine, retiring Governor, U. S. Senator-elect, disciple of the late great free-speech Liberal Robert M. LaFollette; Glenn Prank, President of the University of Wisconsin. . . . Friends of Dr. Frank said he made Governor Blaine look like a Bourbon monkey...
Since "witchcraft" and "sorcery" had their real existence in the anti-social activities of a special class the cult of Notre Dame des Pleurs (Our Lady of Tears) whose members were finally convicted last week, may be properly considered a late survival of "Medieval witchcraft...
Mountain Queen. Earnest, healthy, invincibly domestic, Queen Elena of Italy must have followed the Montenegrin developments of last week with an eager heart. She is the daughter of the late King Nicholas of Montenegro; the aunt of the present Montenegrin pretender, Michael; and, should Michael renounce his rights, her son, Crown Prince Umberto of Italy, might succeed to the suppositious Montenegrin throne...
...word, she is respected but not admired, adored or heeded by Italians. She came, serious-minded, from her dark Balkan mountains, and the grandeur that was or is Rome has not quickened or enlivened her. Had she possessed the taste for pearls, for magnificence, for pageantry of her late mother-in-law (TIME, Jan. 11, 1926), the Dowager Queen Margherita, splendor-loving Italians might have enthroned Elena in their fickle hearts. But she is practical. Many an Italian soldier, wounded during the World War, knows that it was due to Queen Elena's good sense in supervising the Italian...
...better proof of the vitality of the system may be found, however, in the matter in which emphasis has shifted of late from the problem of building a tutorial system to that of keeping one. And even to Mr. Peterkin, the latest commentator, this does not mean that the goal has been achieved, that all that remains to be done is to nurse and fondle any full-fledged academic child. It means rather that in the opinion of the tutors, as in that of the undergraduates and in that of the Faculty, the progress that has been made suffices...