Word: ago
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your last week's issue [TIME, Dec. 9] you characterize me as "of the Boston Globe." That would have been true three and a half years ago. I left the Globe in September...
...graduate of Brenau College in her home town, Miss Matthews taught school for a dozen years in Georgia, went to Washington 15 years ago as a clerk in the Treasury's Bureau of Internal Revenue. Ambitious, she studied law, became a double taxation expert, accompanied U. S. delegations abroad to international tax conferences...
This polymorphous streptococcus is the changeable germ which Harvard's great hygienist Milton Joseph Rosenau told an American Medical Association Convention 13 years ago was probably the cause of many baffling infections...
...some kitchen utensils." On the stage, Eddie Cantor's props- comparable to Will Rogers' gum and spinning ropes-are blackface makeup and white-rimmed spectacles. He accentuates his lines with eye-googling and eccentric prancing. When he wrote his first book a year and a half ago (My Life Is in Your Hands, autobiography), he required the aid of a ghostwriter, one David Freedman. Publishers Simon & Schuster vow that his latest book, Caught Short, about the stockmarket, was written by the author in person one rainy Sunday afternoon (TIME...
...years ago Ivy Chamberlain, handsome, Junoesque wife of then Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain, had an idea for a great Italian Art exhibition to be held in London. She formed a committee on which were art wise Sir Joseph Duveen, Roger Fry, Viscount Lascelles (Princess Mary's husband), Sir William Llewellyn. They wrote a letter to Premier Mussolini who became interested, put Dr. Modigliani in charge of a committee...