Word: latters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...August 1943, N.E.A. said, 21 members of the college faculty were summarily fired and 21 others demoted. One of the latter was Raymond M. Cook, a veteran of 20 years of teaching and school administration in Chicago. Turned down for a principal's certificate six years earlier because he was "disloyal," Cook this time was transferred to a third grade post at $1,500 cut in salary. Last year he quit to go to work in a war plant...
Died. Heber Jedediah Grant, 88, seventh President and Prophet of the Church of the Latter-day Saints (Mormons) since his succession (by seniority) in 1918, also its 33rd Apostle, and one of Utah's shrewdest, most successful insurance men and bankers; in Salt Lake City. Only son of the fifth wife of Salt Lake City's first mayor, Grant organized his first insurance company with $45 capital, preached his religion from England to Japan, outlived two of the three wives he married before the Church outlawed polygamy...
Which is about what the reader does-seeing that nothing is settled, but a good deal of wit and sly wisdom have been released. The 23 pages are good latter-day Frost: the ruminative philosophic wit whose pentameters are salted with gentle satire and unobtrusive learning...
Although these three, the Continental, Sheraton, and Vendome have no more vacancies, ten other important hotels have reported various rooms available. Of these, however, only the Ritz and Touraine have singles and the latter reported that very few were left...
...small Scottish island, "On Approval" allows two kindly if ineffectual characters to realize that they don't want to marry the selfish Brook and Miss Lillie, while the latter pair finally end at the altar. In spite of a well worn plot, this film brings out the best of English humour. Shying away from Hollywood's gag-happy style, "On Approval" specializes in a never ending series of sly, subtle touches that provide an hour and a half of continuous laughter rather than the customary two and a half of spasmodic guffaws...