Word: latters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nursing a pair of first-string grudges: against the personality and policies of the man who defeated him and against those in his own party who regard him as a discredited liability. Last week came a golden opportunity to flay the former, assert his titular party leadership to the latter when Young Republicans from eleven Western States met 1,200 strong at the Scottish Rite Temple in Oakland, Calif. It was the 31st President's first strictly political speech since he left Washington. It was also the first formal forensic broadside of the Republican Presidential campaign. And Herbert Hoover...
...latter difficulty has in the past been one of the most serious with which Sir Wilfred and his colleagues have had to cope. He stated that it had often seemed to him unkind "to prolong a life unless we can make it worth while." However, he pointed out that the natives are by nature a very hardy race and added that he had known of only one suicide during his entire experience in Labrador...
...section of London's Press busily encouraging Italians to rise against Benito Mussolini and insisting that Italy's Royal Family is opposed to the Ethiopian campaign (TIME, Sept. 30), King Vittorio Emanuele's cousin the Duke of Bergamo sailed this week for war service and the latter's brother the Duke of Pistoia volunteered. Meanwhile the Englishman to whom Ethiopia's Emperor granted a vast concession intended for "Standard Oil'' (TIME, Sept. 9 et seq.) was lashed last week in a most unusual dispatch from London by the New York Times...
...Alfred Grosvenor Rolfe. 75-year-old senior master at The Hill School, Pottstown, Pa. "Pa" Rolfe has been at the school 45 years, stepping up whenever needed as acting headmaster. He conducts chapel patriarchally. now teaches only English and Bible since Greek went out of style. The latter subject "Pa" Rolfe has made palatable to many a Hill boy with verses he wrote at odd times concerning Old Testament characters. Now published is a collection of these: Songs of Saints and Sinners.* Explains "Pa" Rolfe in a preface: "Those who chance to read them and find them too familiar...
...Muse was flashing her most winsome smile, and the boys were doing beautifully. They hadn't gotten very far; they were still dallying in the olive groves with Socrates and Plato. And the topic under discussion was the Platonic super being, or the Natural Man. Apparently the latter gentleman had not been very closely defined...