Word: latters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...acute neuritis in my legs which followed a severe case of double lobar pneumonia (unconscious five days and not expected to live), which in turn followed an attack of acute gastritis with hemorrhages (unconscious two or three days). Is it possible you confuse neuritis with alcoholic jitters? Perhaps the latter condition is more easily understood by the writer of such a glittering article...
Born in Nebraska, Congregationalist George Dern migrated to Utah, made friends with his Mormon neighbors, though he never joined the Church of the Latter Day Saints. He plugged and profited at mining and engineering, served two terms as Utah's Democratic Governor, was spotted by Franklin Roosevelt as a Cabinet possibility at a Governors' Conference six years ago (TIME, July 14, 1930). As the civilian head of the Army, he kept well in the background, left the service pretty much to its professionals...
...weather report which noted a 2,000-ft. ceiling at St. Louis, low-lying fog along the way and unlimited visibility at Chicago, the City of Memphis had soared off into the dark at 9:56 p. m. with a fresh pilot, a copilot, six passengers. One of the latter was Captain Vernon C. Omlie, oldtime flyer and husband of equally famed Aviator Phoebe Omlie. Six minutes after the takeoff, the airport called the plane by radio, got no answer By 10:20, when there was still no word anxious officials began querying airport; along...
When in 1910 Theodore Roosevelt thus roared at his rebellious protégé, William Howard Taft, most U. S. citizens knew instantly what he meant. Through the latter half of the 19th Century most of the nation's schoolchildren learned about Meddlesome Mattie, many another moral, immoral or amoral character in William Holmes McGuffey's famed series of Eclectic Readers. Today McGuffey's Eclectics have vanished from most schoolrooms but William Holmes McGuffey lives on as the hero of a nostalgic cult unique in educational history...
...Jewell) with his attentions to Anne (Gloria Stuart). The cast is made up of the kind of people whose names look naked when exposed on marquees, but they are professional enough to convey that their antics are all in fun without impairing the occasional legitimate moments. One of the latter: Jeanie killing Benson...