Word: lating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...validity of the 18th Amendment. That is the seven-year limitation as to ratification. It is clearly contrary to the Constitution. I have never understood why Root and the other lawyers who argued the case in the Supreme Court did not raise this point. . . . But it is too late now for this objection...
...unlike Manhattan's Theatre Guild but more like Cleveland's Playhouse. The Stagers produced it one Sunday evening at the Arts Theatre, where Maurice Browne, playwright and producer, saw it. A few weeks later he produced it in London's West End. That was in late January. Today Journey's End is London's outstanding success...
...bold! Be bold!" was a favorite Occidental maxim of the late, sainted Dr. Sun Yat-sen (TIME, March 23, 1925), founder of China's present Nationalist Government. Nearly always the tail end of the maxim (". . . but not too bold!") was docked in quotation by dynamic, heroic Sun Yatsen. Last week it seemed that the penchant for daring of Saint Sun was cropping out strongly in his son, Mr. Sun Fo, who is Chinese Minister of Railways and Reconstruction. Without batting either of his eyes, Mr. Sun coolly asked legislative approval for a 50-year program of public works...
...roisterer was the tutor of Dionysus. Together they cultivated bees and vines, sampled the wines. Peter Paul Rubens painted Der Trunkene Silen (The Drunken Silenus) reeling over a woman and her babes, supported by a satyr and a blackamoor, followed by a panther. This picture, long owned by the late Prince John of Lichtenstein, was sold, last week, for $30,000 to Mark Lindebaum, Viennese engineer and oil tycoon...
...parties and have to be at their offices the morning after. Said she: "Things have gone so far that it's not pleasant. We're not enjoying it. The young men are not enjoying it, and certainly the hostesses aren't enjoying it. Being late came into fashion but it's getting so that everybody comes later and later. As things are now you're invited to an 8 o'clock dinner and sometimes it's 10 o'clock before you sit down. Then there is a pause before...