Word: lately
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Also in the stadium was a Harvard enthusiast whose hearty cheers always seemed to end rather unorthodoxly in a jumble of gurgles, splutters, and smothered rattles. After Harvard's second touchdown his cheer rose like unto the sereech of a siren. When his voice fell it was too late, for his false teeth had already fallen, presumably into the mess of feathers, flora, and surrealist architecture which some women's hat-maker is probably proud of. At least that was where he looked for it, much to the consternation of the woman thereunder...
Inheritor last January of $1,000,000, most of which "slipped through my fingers like quicksilver," Geraldine Spreckels Spreckels, 21-year-old great-granddaughter of the late rich Sugar Tycoon Claus Spreckels, signed a Warner Brothers contract as a feature player, hopes to play second lead to Bette Davis in Warners' forthcoming Jezebel. Cinemactress Spreckels is currently separated from her Cousin-Husband Adolph Bernard Spreckels Jr., whose third wife she is. Not to be confused with many & many another Spreckels kin, she will act under the name of Anna Johns...
Presiding over his radio program of incredibilities, Robert Leroy Ripley beckoned to the microphone a tubby lyric tenor who had played obscure cinema parts. Listeners heard a thin voice with forced higher registers pour out "O Pari-diso" from L'Africaine, one of the favorite arias of the late great Enrico Caruso. Announced Mr. Ripley: "You have just heard the voice of Enrico Caruso Jr.- believe...
...steadily upheld the principle of reproduction costs. And the utilities since 1897 have been favored by the reproduction cost theory because prices have been on the rise. But before 1897, when prices were falling, the utilities clamored for the prudent investment basis and were bitterly attacked by the late great Robert Marion La Follette and other progressives of that day for so doing...
Married. Jesse Lauriston Livermore Jr., 18, son of Wall Street's famed speculator, now recovered from bullet wounds received at his mother's hands during a Montecito, Calif, drinking excursion (TIME, Dec. 9, 1935); to one Evelyn Bletzer Sullivan, 20, four years a divorcee, daughter of a late barkeep and prizefight promoter...