Word: latter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Theodore Rousseau, Director of the Paris branch of the Guaranty Trust Co. of Manhattan, waited one afternoon last week at the Gare du Lyons, Paris. In puffed a train. Out jumped a man both lean and spry. While porters panted, he sprinted with M. Rousseau for the latter's limousine, distanced newsgatherers, photographers. Then for a few days Secretary Mellon of the U. S. Treasury dwelt on the ancient Ile St. Louis, hard by Notre Dame, surrounded by the muddy Seine, ensconced at the venerable and opulent mansion of M. Rousseau whom the Secretary is said to address...
...work, beyond cavil, was more original than Architect McKim's. The latter, a conservative gentleman of the highest type, was in his decoration a trifle too simple, austere, for many people's taste; his design too was severely academical. But everyone agreed that Charles McKim was exactly the man the firm needed to balance the exciting gifts of Stanford White. No one, even with an unlimited fund to draw on, could decorate a house like Stanford White. There was a certain discreet voluptuousness in his patterning of rugs and hangings of sombre and yet burning tones...
...older Thomas Moran, ancestor of all, brought his family from Bolton, Lancashire, to Philadelphia in 1844. The boys went to the public schools. The talent of Edward, the eldest, developed first and it was he who first gave lessons to young Thomas after the latter had tried being a wood engraver's apprentice, cabinetmaker, bronzeworker, housepainter, weaver, and mender of looms. Before long, Ruskin saw a plate by Thomas Moran Jr, in a London exhibition and singled it out as the finest contribution from...
...Home Towners. Mr. George M. Cohan contrasts the comparative virtues of South Bend and New York much to the advantage of the latter in his new comedy. A native of the Indiana town who has made a fortune in New York invites his boyhood friend to the city to be best man at his marriage to a Manhattan girl. But the small towner, known as "Pig Head" Ban croft, is suspicious of all folks from the city and he manages to disrupt the romance temporarily before he is convinced that virtue is not lost to New Yorkers. About this scenario...
...would carry out their joint venture, would be the great competitor of the Aluminum Co. of America. But Mr. Duke saw greater gains for himself from dealing with the Aluminum Co. He traded his hydro-electric developments and rights for Aluminum Co. interests. He became a director of the latter. Manufacturer Haskell was left alone with his plans-and his wrath. He has pending in Boston courts a suit against the Aluminum Co. for $15,000,000 damages. Last week, still wroth, he filed another suit in Manhattan. If monopoly, in the sense established by the Sherman Anti-Trust...