Word: latters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reed. Candidate Reed stumped into California just in time to hear the Walsh boom begin. He had come, after a week in his own Midwest, from the wide Southwest, including Phoenix and Albuquerque. In the latter city, he had flayed New Mexico's defamed and pining Albert Bacon Fall and New Mexico's brusque, new, young figure, Senator Bronson Murray Cutting. His ire at Senator Cutting was aroused by the latter's voting to seat Senator-suspect Smith of Illinois. In the midst of a tirade, he was cut short by a heckler, Editor E. Dana Johnson...
...Randolph Hearst was planning to sell three of his gumchewer sheetlets-the Mirror (New York), Advertiser (Boston) and American (Baltimore)-to Mr. Moore. Perhaps Mr. Hearst helped persuade President Coolidge to please his customer. If Publisher Hearst has such influence with President Coolidge, it may well mean that the latter's disinclination to another nomination is decreasingly adamant...
...elevation of Major Peyton Gordon, U. S. Attorney who has twice convicted Sinclair-for contempt of the Senate and for jury-tampering in contempt of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia-to the bench of the latter Court, by President Coolidge...
...spite of the fact that he is cast as a Diamond in the Rough he manages to leave the impression of good clean villainy. Miss Brent, playing a girl reeking with refinement for the first part of the picture, redeems herself by going slightly but uncontrollably native in the latter half. Which brings us to a point we have been trying to reach for some time--to wit: the locale is the indefinite tropics and there are many sinister references to "what this country will do to a decent woman." The local color includes a good deal of rain...
...among nations in this art, and whatever distance it has come on the road toward understanding the significance and beauty of symphony or opera, and the finer charm of chamber music. It owes to such men as Major Higginson and Mr. Whiting. Harvard is showing its gratitude to the latter in the way that pleases him most, by the large and appreciative audiences that greet his appearance here...