Word: latters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...descended on Cambridge July 1, spent the intervening weeks variously studying shorthand and typing or, in the other school, how to become a successful publisher. The latter course involved everything from proofreading to promotional schemes...
There had been signs that George Bernard Shaw was mellowing in his lonesome latter years. Lately, when newsmen had rung up his Ayot St. Lawrence home,, the phone was answered immediately, as though he had been waiting beside it for someone to call. And long after he had answered reporters' questions, he would prattle on as though he pined for conversation...
...problem. He has a luxurious summer home and an equally luxurious winter home--both belonging to an ulcerated millionaire. Moore, however, reversing the usual custom, resides in the tycoon's town house in New York during the winter, and moves to the Virginia estate of Mr. Moneybags when the latter gentleman comes north for the summer. Except for his kind heart, which causes him to take in an un-manageaable number of guests, and the loneliness of the millionaire's daughter, which takes her to the Fifth Avenue residence in mid-winter, the happy hobo could have continued indefinitely...
...without the German industrial output which depends on Ruhr coal, the rest of Europe cannot recover. A Swiss delegate explained it this way: "We have found that Country A needs something which Country B can provide, on condition Country B can get something from Country C, which the latter can provide if she can get something from Country D; and Country D can provide that something-on condition she gets something which only Germany, and the Ruhr in particular, can produce. Whatever article we take, we finish up against a blank wall-Germany. It is the fact that Germany...
...creator of this latter day Water Music is a short, jumpy Tin Pan Alleyite named Frank Loesser, who has a remarkable talent for tunes that at first attract and then nauseate. His biggest hit was Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition; another song of his, Tallahassee, is climbing on the hit parade...