Word: lately
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lampoon dined on some sort of combination between roast pig and truffled turkey. The original menagerie, however, were obviously alive this morning; especially to the ears of any who may be unfortunate enough to reside in that section of the Gold Coast Bob Lampoon, when interviewed at a late hour last night, declared that a bird in the hand was not always worth two in the bush. There might be some clue there...
Five years ago, the late Dr. William Romaine Newbold, University of Pennsylvania linguist and philosopher, declared that he had deciphered the crabbed symbols in which Roger Bacon, fearing for his life in the superstitious 13th Century, noted down his scientific experiments. Last week, at a meeting held in Dr. Newbold's memory, University of Pennsylvania professors verified their dead colleague's translations. A chemist in their number, Dr. Hiram S. Lukens, had taken to his laboratory a quaint recipe by which Friar Bacon had said he obtained salts of copper. Dr. Lukens had never seen such a formula...
Joseph E. Widener, Philadelphia millionnaire art collector: "Directly following the marriage last week of my daughter, Fifi (see p. 32) it was reported from Manhattan that my agent had purchased, for $100,000, a rug once belonging to the late Sultan Abdul Aziz of Turkey. The rug has a background of moss-green creepers, with orange-red stems, among which deer, gazelles, sheep, goats are pursued by lions and leopards.* There is a centre medallion of rose-crimson, with vine traceries in pink and silver around four hawklike birds...
...circus they finally bought (1907) for $410,000, gaining thereby practical circus monopoly of the U. S. and Canada. During this material growth they rose from boyhood self-education to culture. Brother John (sole survivor) was recently revealed as an art collector (TIME, May 10); Robert, son of the late Charles, sings opera in Munich; wherever the circus of late years has gone, a private dining tent, with an English butler, has been set up alongside, in case one of the brothers should drop in. Art Collector John and the late Charles have also shown financial genius, many times doubling...
...McCobb's Daughter, Carrie, is played by Clare Eames, slim, high-voltage onetime Lady Macbeth in the late James K. Hackett's Shakespearian swashbuckling (crowned by France). Sidney Howard, who knew what they wanted, provides her and the Theatre Guild with an effective Down East chariot, brought up to date with a bootleg plot. Carrie's no-account spouse has committed the indiscretion of appropriating $2,000 in Kennebec ferry fares. Babe, a genial-villainous, gold-toothed brother-in-law from Manhattan lends the sum-when allowed to use the family barn for liquor storage...