Word: latter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...example 'hot dog' or 'hot diggedy dog' the latter one of my own expressions, are exclamations of joy which express more than could be conveyed in half a dozen sentences...
...handful of students could appreciate, until not so long before the end, the value of his subject came to be generally recognized. While his competence really covered the whole field, his more special interest lay in Old French, Anglo-Norman, and the French element in English. On the two latter subjects the learned world awaited from him definitive treatises which death forestalled...
City managers are not so numerous as politicians. But Cincinnati, having decided that she prefers one of the former rather than one of the latter for her lord and master, last week announced her choice: Lieutenant Colonel Clarence O. Sherrill of the Engineering Corps of the Army. She will bring him a dower of $25,000 a year...
...Right Honorable John Hookham Frere, a noted English diplomat and author of humorous poetry, famous for his translations of Aristophanes. The manuscripts sent to Frere included the first volume and a part of the second of Coleridge's work, "My Literary Life", as well as his "Sibylline Leaves", the latter being a collection of his poems, which, as he writes, he "dared consent to be known as of his own will as well as authorship...
...made by a University orchestra, are not to be placed on public sale. They are available from individual members of the orchestra only. A syncopated version of Rubenstein's "Kammenoi-Ostrow" is on one side, and the popular "My Sweetie Turned Me Down" is on the other. The latter piece was arranged for the orchestra by John W. Greene...