Word: latter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Girl Scout believes it is the latter place, and she gives her best to making it so. She learns to do away with nonessentials in the home, to throw away a lot of frippery little things and to have three or four really lovely things in their place...
Having married politics, she rose to enjoy a prestige in the capital second only to presidents' wives and to Alice Roosevelt Longworth, whose father was often at loggerheads* with Mrs. McCormick's father. When Miss Hanna first saw Miss Roosevelt, the latter had just "burst upon the world as Princess Alice." Miss Hanna thought Princess Alice a harum-scarum. Princess Alice thought the young lady who presided over the griddle cakes and corned beef hash at Senator Hanna's political breakfasts in Lafayette Square, a superb prig...
...Rear Admiral, in his mad will-o wisp game with this long-dead Smith, resorted to various attempts to find the latter's book. After advertising without result in the query columns of the Boston Evening Transcript, he learned that the Library of Congress had no record of it, nor had the British Museum or any of the public libraries of the United States...
Perhaps for the first time in history the Republican Party, George Jean Nathan, and H. L. Mencken are in approximate agreement. For some years ago, when the latter announced their platform as nominees for President and Vice-President of the United States, in Smart Set, they advocated that all living members of the Roosevelt family be sent to Leavenworth. It would seem that the big-wigs of the Grand Old Party to a man would wish at least one were safely there now, for Trotsky preaching Bolshevism on the White House lawn could scarcely produce stronger consternation or disapprobation than...
...sketches, by P. R. Frothingham '06; "The Care of the Patient" by Professor F. W. Peabody '03 of the Medical School; "Dreams" by Assistant Professor P. G. Stiles, also of the Medical School; "Cambridge Legal Essays," a collection of essays on various legal topics. Among the authors of the latter are Dean Roscoe Pound and Professor J. H. Beale '82 of the Law School...