Word: lately
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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James Rowland Angell, President of Yale: "Lately, Director Richard Swann Lull of our university's Peabody Museum received a telegram from Texas saying that Old Bill, 22-year-old, 2,500-pound Asian armored rhinoceros, worth $30,000, had died very suddenly. Professor Lull, quick to reply, told Old Bill's owners, the Ringling Brothers Circus, that he would be glad to have them stand by an agreement made years ago by the late P. T. Barnum and renewed by the Ringlings when they bought out Mr. Barnum, that the corpses of their rare animals should come...
...overcoat, brown suit, felt hat far down over generous ears. But on a Monday evening, as soon as the reading begins, a newcomer understands what it is that has made "Copey" the William Lyon Phelps (Yale), the Henry van Dyke (Princeton), the John Erskine (Columbia), the Bur-ges Johnson (late of Vassar), of Harvard. The amazingly flexible voice, its sympathies and humor, its clarity, expression and power of creating reality out of written words, bespeaks "Copey" as not only a most popular and learned professor but a great master as well of that most difficult of arts, reading aloud...
...have occurred to "Copey" to acquaint his listeners with the writing of some Harvard man-the late Poet Allan Seeger, who was doubtless one of the hundreds of men-with whom "Copey" kept up a lively correspondence as his contribution to the War; or Funnyman Robert Benchley, of Life; or Heywood Broun, idly-ambling colyumist of the New York World...
...Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey. He gets $150 per corpse. One day last week he earned $900. Early in the morning, while a crowd cheered, tooted auto horns and exploded flashlights, he executed three men at Charlestown, Mass., then took a train for Sing Sing. It was late when he arrived. The condemned men lay awake in their uncurtained cells in the harshly lighted, white-painted death-house. A Negro was singing a song. That afternoon the black man had tried to commit suicide with a rope made of four towels knotted together. They took the towels away from...
...gasoline station in Trenton, N. J., one Edward Frommel, a man with a hickory leg, sat smoking. It was late at night. In a cigar box over Mr. Frommel's head lay a wad of dirty bills, a week's gas receipts. He was thinking of the money and hoping that his partner would come back soon, so that they could take it home to- gether. There are bandits in Trenton. . . . Suddenly, on the door of the gas station, boomed a loud knock. Mr. Frommel jumped up. As he opened the door he saw two Trenton bandits with...