Word: lately
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...about $1,400,000 is willed to Patrick Cardinal Hayes, Archbishop of New York. That might mean me personally, for Roman Catholic prelates are permitted to own private fortunes. But Lawyer-Banker Whalen's own lawyer, Edmund L. Mooney, an Episcopalian, who witnessed the will, says that the late John Whalen intended me to be trustee for the Archdiocese of New York...
George Bernard Shaw, playwright: "It was after a dinner last week at the London home of Lady Utica Beecham (who is separated from her husband, Sir Thomas, eccentric, music-loving son of the late pill magnate, Sir Joseph -TIME, Nov. 15). Having finished our port and cigars, we gentlemen strolled into the drawing-room, disposed ourselves variously and engaged the ladies in what passes at such gatherings for conversation. There came, as there always comes, when celebrated authors, statesmen and clerics are present, a lull. Leaning negligently against the mantelpiece, I seized the occasion to muse audibly, 'I have...
...Since late November influenza has been increasing throughout western Europe at so alarming a rate that public health officials have come to fear a pandemic, a world-wide occurrence of this disease, such as happened in 1918-19. Already Switzerland, Germany England and France have been severely hit. At Nantes, France, the undertakers reported last week that they were four days behind with their burials. Their crogue-morts* complained of sore feet and demanded subsidy for new shoes. In Italy the authorities claimed they have no epidemic. But no gloss was smeared over the situation in Spain, Ireland, Scotland...
Died. Houston Stewart Chamberlain, 72, famed Germanophile, husband of Richard Wagner's daughter Eva; in Bayreuth. Son of the late British Rear Admiral W. C. Chamberlain, and nephew of the late Field Marshal Sir Neville Chamberlain, he was naturalized a German 1916, following decoration by the Kaiser for a book glorifying Germany...
Artist Clivette has lived of late in Greenwich Village, running a curiosity shop called Soul Light Shrine. "Another of those crazy Village clubs," said passersby. But in one of these clubs of late, George Kellman, owner of the New Art Gallery, saw suddenly before his face a canvas showing four horsemen outriding a blizzard. It had color, light, demoniac motion. It was by World-Citizen Clivette. Mr Kellman bought it and others-cascades that thundered, tigers that snarled. Then he opened his up town show...