Word: lating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nice job. But New York already has two Democratic Senators firmly embedded in their red-leather chairs at Washington. He has business offers (here his feline pacing), plenty of them. William Randolph Hearst wants him to write a syndicated daily article in the manner of Will Rogers. Though a late riser and no outdoor sportsman, he is ready to endorse anything from alarm clocks to golf balls, for proper inducement per endorsement. The talkies have been seeking his glib services. Big concerns have sought him as their publicity man. He has offers that would make him a millionaire. His friends...
...Fairbanks replied: "Your touching wire received. But too late. Jo-Jo was the toughest motion picture actor we have ever eaten. Suggest you take the matter up with Equity...
...estate of the late Dr. Joseph J. Lawrence, inventor of "Listerine," who died 20 years ago in Manhattan, was announced last week to be valued at between seven and eleven million dollars...
...Journalism and kindred worlds were stirred last week by announcement of the 1928-29 winners of the annual prizes which the late great Publisher Joseph Pulitzer established to elevate his countrymen and perpetuate his name...
Subtler but just as resonant as the ballyhooing of the late Phineas Taylor Barnum was the publicity which preceded, last week, the public auction of two Renaissance paintings from the collection of Carl W. Hamilton of Manhattan. The two pictures were hung in a shadowy chamber in the Anderson Galleries. Tall candles gave an air of piety to the occasion. Uniformed Negroes stood gravely beside each canvas, so immobile, so harmonious with the austere gloom, that they were nearly invisible. Visitors hushed their voices, lightened their footsteps...