Word: latter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Elizabeth Ann and for whom, together with all illegitimates, she now sought legal recognition and a patrimony, sale of The President's Daughter at $5 per copy was said to be for the benefit of the Elizabeth Ann Guild Inc an organization to better the lot "of illegitimates. The latter part of the book related Miss Britton's futile efforts to obtain a settlement from the Harding estate or relatives. She had been touring in Europe she said on money he had given her after his election to the Presidency. She hurried home and was astonished to find that...
Sunday. (Shaker Heights, Cleveland). Rose, shaved and bathed early so that he could see his grandson, John Michael McGean, aged five weeks, during some of the latter's few waking moments. . . . Motored with Mrs. Baker to see the new home of his friend John Stockwell. Showed special interest in John Stockwell's library. . . . Home for Sunday dinner, the best part of which (for Mr. Baker) was ice cream. . . . Changed to old shirt and work trousers, left off hat, coat and waistcoat, rolled up workshirt sleeves and fell to cutting cornstalks in the garden. Carried the corn stalks in armfuls...
...death of Payson Dana, class of 1904, Harvard College has lost an able and devoted alumnus. He was always genial and happy, a leader in every place and undertaking. The greater part of his latter years was almost entirely devoted to Public Service...
...cult most of the U.S. envies, tries to copy, fails perhaps to understand. For almost any U.S. actor, the part would have been impossible; for Mr. Howard it is a goal unerringly achieved. The Taming of the Shrew develops into a pretty feeble farce along toward the latter half, but up to that time, perhaps unto the end, a normal U. S. citizen will enjoy this version of it more than any other he has ever seen. The piece is played in the trimmest of modern clothes and plainly marked "Talk -do not recite, intone, pant, blow...
University wrestling will not start in earnest until after the close of the foot-ball season, while the first-year mat men will hold an introductory meet in the latter part of December, and will settle down to serious practice in January. Wrestling candidates are asked to report at the meeting tonight whether they intend to start work at once or at the close of football...