Word: latters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...latter part of Mr. Laurie's book that is really engrossing. There he deals with the scientific aids--the microscope, X-rays, ultra-violet light--in the attribution of authorship and in the detection of forgeries. Error and fraud are bogeys not always easy to exorcise, and even genuine doubt is disturbing, as Mr. Laurie shows in his discussion of "La Belle Ferronniere," by Leonardo da Vinci. There were two contenders for genuineness, one in the Louvre (the more familiar) and the other in the Hahn collection. A trial took place in New York, but the jury disagreed. Mr. Laurie...
...been written by the emperor's scribes in Constantinople. The story then begins with the first revival of the arts under Charlemagne, shown in the ancient Rheims Gospel and the "Golden Latin Gospels, called "of Henry the Eighth." Both being of the ninth century, are in Byzantine style, the latter all in letters of burnished gold on purple vellum, is among the most beautiful and important documents here. Of two centuries later, with Byzantine traits still persisting, are the German Gospels from Salzburg...
...more primarily responsible for wars than was Peter the Hermit, John Brown, or the Austrian Archduke who had himself assassinated to start the World War. You and Senator Nye might as properly blame the Hoover Company and Fuller Brush Company for the Kansas dust storms, although the latter of the two concerns is responsible for The Fuller Brush Man, who is about as all pervading as the dust itself...
There are two kinds of bookmakers in the U. S.: those who operate at race tracks and those who handle bets elsewhere for the convenience of their customers. Of the latter, there are about 10,000 in Chicago, 20,000 in New York, 100,000 scattered about the country, in cigar stores, poolrooms, newsstands, lunch rooms. Some are agents for big bookmaking establishments. The majority are independent. Since pari-mutuels-machine betting at race tracks through a general pool, in which the odds are determined by the amount bet on each horse and of which the state and track each...
...presentation, these theories were to be definitely defended as superior to our own tried systems and if, at the same time, their advocates should preach the overthrow of our present government. The proper way to present such subjects is to differentiate between theory and practice and in reviewing the latter, to compare it dispassionately with the actual workings of our own system...