Word: lateral
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...professors, social workers, dog fanciers turned their ears in the direction of Princess Jacqueline, brindle French bulldog, who was reputed to be "able to talk." They asked her to spell. She replied: "Wah the ell, wah the ell." They asked her to sing. She sang sourly. When she spoke, later, it was nearer English than French, nearer dog than English...
...ascended St. Peter's throne, liberal, popular. Two years later Italy became so liberal, so revolutionary that he had to flee from the Vatican disguised. The year 1850 saw him once more on the throne. French bayonets had effected his return. But his liberalism was gone...
Eight years later Pio Nono died. He had reigned longer than any other pope. He was the first pope to be declared infallible by dogma. But he died without papal lands...
...gentle rustle of satisfaction animated the starched silks of the ladies of the Fifth Avenue (Manhattan) Baptist Church when the erect, square-shouldered law clerk strode down the aisle to take his seat. "There," they whispered to one another, "is the Good Young Man of our church." And later, when they walked home with their children, they were apt to say: "Winfield, I wish you wouldn't keep your hands in your pockets. He never does."Or, again:"Ulysses, don't hang your head. Stand up straight, as he does...
Charlotte pirouetted on artificial ice. . . . Houdini wore straitjackets . . . Annette Kellerman in black epidermal tights . . . Toto . . . Marceline . . . Perche-rons . . . choruses not as pretty but much harder-working than the later Follies...