Word: lateral
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Arbitration Pact wherein the signatories "condemn war as an instrument of national policy." But whereas the Kellogg-Briand Pact stops there, the Arbitration Pact of last week goes on to say that the signatories "adopt obligatory arbitration as the means for the settlement of their international differences. ..." This later pledge is the absolute heart and core of what was accomplished, last week, and is carefully elaborated in the treaty's nine articles, binding the nations firmly to arbitration...
Thus Argentina, which sent no delegates to the Conference (TIME, Dec. 3) and did not sign the Pacts, last week, can later avail herself of the new machinery of conciliation by dropping a wire at any time to Santiago, Chile...
...knife on the carpenter. Though old, the Hamburger was still potent. Seizing the crook's slender wrist he wrenched away the knife; seizing his coat collar and seat of trousers he hurled him sprawling into a Kurfürsten-Damm gutter, returned to Gretchen. Half an hour later some 30 taxis teeming with tuxedoed crooks drew up outside the Hamburger convention. Though the Journeymen flung chairs, mightfully defending themselves, the crooks opened with Mauser pistols, shot one Hamburger dead, wounded seven...
...hose. While the planes zoomed at 75 miles an hour Lieut. Harry Halverson aboard the Question Mark reached out, grabbed the hose, thrust it into the tanks. Once there was bungling. Gasoline was spilt. Major Carl Spatz, the commander, was burned. Lieut. Elwood Quesada was overcome by fumes. But later a swinging rope conveyed zinc oxide, balm for the Major. Lieut. Quesada, recovered, idled in his berth, read a magazine. Other ropes were swung, provided oranges, oatmeal, coffee. The larder of the Question Mark was stocked at the start with roast chicken...
...family, he married his sweetheart, Lottie Kaufman, in the Temple, and shortly afterward quit furs and bought a penny arcade in Manhattan. Later, when he had shown a profit running "Hale's Tours," one of William A. Brady's projects, he went home to Ricse for a visit and was received by the Mayor and the Town Council...