Word: lateral
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...memories crowded at Mr. Root's elbow: McKinley's Cabinet meetings in that stodgy second-story room of the White House; the new Cabinet room, later, under Roosevelt. President Coolidge relished these recollections...
...steps of the Treasury Building he climbed, strode into the elevator, stepped out at the second floor and entered the big, dark, deep-carpeted office of Secretary Mellon. There he examined plaster models of the Government's new office buildings. Mr. Mellon stooped to point out the details. . . . Later the President walked briskly back to the White House...
...West last week, carrying a trapped crew of 15 volunteers. The U. S. S. Mallard (tender) stood by. After 15 minutes a black buoy bobbed up among the waves. Three anxious minutes crawled by. Then the head of Chief Torpedoman Edward Kalinowski plopped out on the surface. A minute later Lieut. Charles B. Momsen emerged. They were the first two U. S. submariners ever to escape directly from a sunken craft...
...months later-on All Fool's Eve-Bandit-catcher Hanneken annihilated Osiris Joseph, another Haitian outlaw, and his retinue. For this Hanneken won the Navy Cross...
...insurrection of 1901; through Verdun and Chateau Thierry, commanding the Fifth Regiment; through Soissons, St. Mihiel and the Meuse-Argonne to the Coblenz bridgehead. On the way into Germany, re-placement doughboys stole his greenish Marine overcoat, stars and all, mistaking it for a German officer's. He later found it draped comfortably around an Army mule...