Word: lateral
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this fashion, last fortnight, did Nicholas B. Jones. 87, Civil War veteran of Enid, Okla.. describe a Lincoln-Shields duel near Springfield, Ill. He said it took place in 1861, when Shields, later Civil War general and Senator from Illinois and Missouri, was state auditor. Letters deriding him appeared in the Springfield Journal. He accused Lincoln, who refused to retract. According to the accepted ver sion of the Lincoln-Shields affair, broadswords were chosen and a site on the Missouri shore some 50 miles away. But friends interceded, prevented the duel...
...number was introduced by the droll, Cheshire-cat-faced Nikita Balieff, an ticipant audiences rocked with a foretaste of merriment which always followed. The music of the "Parade of the Wooden Soldiers" penetrated every stratum of U. S. society. Not to have seen the "Wooden Soldiers" or "Katinka" or later "Katerina" was the height of rusticity or indifference...
...great social changes of the later eighteenth and nineteenth centuries gave rise to profound political transformations. The industrial revolution radically upset the economic system and established industrial and commercial capital side by side with wealth in land. This in turn involved the decline of the old feudal aristocracy and the rise of a middle class. It was but natural that this natural class, as it became influential should desire some voice in the affairs of government. In time it evolved a political theory known as liberalism and based on the principles of individualism, liberty and free competition. In the countries...
...English novels of the soil." But when the farmland seasons begin inevitably to recur, and the simple rustics inevitably to repeat themselves, that same reader, despondent, flutters the pages and lights upon the publisher's explanation that the work was originally planned as a short story, and later expanded to its 372 pages. Obviously ill adapted to short story, the theme of nature's dogged hold upon the lives of men is here drawn out in excessive monotone...
...Later in the evening Pansy, who is the only skating horse in existence, will provide a comedy relief for the audience with a fancy exhibition of skating. His appearance in the village square, which will be lighted by the torches of numerous peasants, is promised as the hit of the evening's performance...