Word: lately
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reason for the attack was soon deduced. Dr. Sun Fo, son of the late great Chinese Revolutionist Sun Yatsen, had recently visited Russia and toured European capitals seeking aid for the Chinese Government. Arriving in Hong Kong, he and his party booked passage with China National Aviation Corp. from Hong Kong to Chungking, China's temporary capital. Japanese spies evidently informed the Japanese Air Force that an easy job of assassination could be carried...
...baiting Dictator Metaxas, unable to lay his hands on the rebels, last week did the next best thing. He court-martialed the 42 leaders in absentia. Sentences: death for four, including former Minister of National Economy Aristomenis Mitsotakis, nephew of Greece's late Republican firebrand Eleutherios Venizelos; life imprisonment for three; one to 25 years' imprisonment for 35 others. As a special inducement the condemned men were informed that if they gave themselves up in a month they would have the right to appeal their sentences...
...came the tale of a London dinner party conversation between Germany's new 100% Nazi Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, Dr. Herbert von Dirksen, and the beauteous 23-year-old Duchess of Roxburghe, a granddaughter of the late great Liberal Prime Minister, Lord Rosebery. Dr. Dirksen: "I suppose you get your fine black eyes from your Scottish ancestry?" The Duchess: "No, Your Excellency, I think it must be my Jewish ancestry. One of my grandfathers was Baron Meyer de Rothschild...
...columns, appeared in book form. Since her first column, on Dec. 30, 1935, she has not missed a day, even when she was ill with influenza. On only three occasions, none of them Mrs. Roosevelt's fault, did her copy reach United Feature Syndicate's office late. It is written the day it is sent in, appears in most newspapers next day. United Feature confines its editing to facts and grammatical construction, never touches her opinions. Mrs. Roosevelt gets about $10,000 a year from United Feature, has a five-year contract...
...late George Wesley Bellows was once sketching at Mouquin's, a Manhattan restaurant favored by society in his day. Bellows liked Mouquin's less for its food and company than for its mirrors. Hunched at the bar with a sketch pad concealed on his knee, he could use the other patrons as his unconscious models. On this occasion a furious little gentleman approached the artist and charged that Bellows was ogling his wife. Bellows was very peaceable but very tall. He rose, slowly. When he reached six feet the challenger blanched and turned away...