Word: lating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with trying to defraud the U. S. of $175,967.65 in income taxes. He, performing in Minneapolis, said time would prove him innocent.-ED. Brent & Canterbury Sirs: Seeing in TIME that the Archbishop of Canterbury was yachting on the luxurious Corsair with Multi-Millionaire Morgan, reminded me of the late Bishop Brent, of New York State, and a different scene. I was with Major General Henry C. Corbin on the Benguet road going from Baguio to Manila in an army (Doherty) wagon. At noon we outspanned for luncheon. Smoking in the shade after chicken and ham and iced wine...
Last week, some 50 years after the Reconstruction Period, began three new chapters in the history of Negroes at U. S. training schools. Dignified, grey-wooled Oscar de Priest, the Negro who has succeeded the late Martin Barnaby Madden as Representative of Chicago's black-belt ist District, sent up the names of two young Negroes for admission to Annapolis. A third he nominated for West Point. All were boys from his District. All are high-school graduates with reputations for studious application, fine character. Laurence A. Whitfield and Claude Henson Burns are the Annapolis nominees. Alonzo Souleigh Parham...
...supercilious and insulting references which too often emanate from the university. It was not so long a time ago that a prominent professor of Harvard made slighting and flippant references to another section of our city, and now the Harvard Crimson, whose editorial columns have so often of late displeased a vast number of the alumni, as well as the vast majority of the students of the college, has taken upon itself the task of making invidious comparisons with reference to housing conditions in East Boston...
...scheduled regatta in the Gloncester dories which was to have been held before the game was postponed until a late hour in the evening because the Metropolitan police thought it would be unwise for 16 Lampoon editors to go down to a watery grave. The race was finally run off at midnight and the Lampooners under the influence of the splendid half-moon grew too romantic and swam in the wrong direction. The reporters who lined the banks proclaimed the CRIMSON winner by half a nose for the five mile course...
Unfortunately the highly embossed loving cup, which was to go to the winner of the day's laurels, had disappeared at a late hour last night. Foul play is suspected in official circles, but there are same who still cling to the suicide theory. They base their opinion on a study of the sex life of the ancient receptacle. "It may have been old," one expert said, "but it was still a loving...