Word: lateral
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...talking to Warden Lawes and Father McCaffrey, the prison chaplain. About 1 a. m. some others came in. Convict Moran lit a cigaret. They led him to, and through, a little green door. He flipped away his cigaret and sat down silently in the electric chair. Six minutes later he was pronounced dead. It was New York's 288th execution...
Rothstein was the big loser. At the end of the sitting he had to give his IOU for $349,000. He gave another IOU for $49,000 in cash lying on the table, which he shoved into his pocket. "See you later," he told them, and went...
Over the regular trans-Atlantic telephone Prince George talked from Manhattan with Queen Mary. Later he peered from the top of the Woolworth building, sat down to dine at 8:30 in the Vanderbilt mansion, slipped out at 10:15 to catch his ship...
Britannia's new out-and-out-editor, Walter Crawfurd-Price was a famed British War-correspondent, and later Foreign Editor of the Sunday Times...
Turning back to a page of Fifteenth Century history, one may read the famed Bull of Pope Alexander VI, whereby "The New World" of the Americas was pontifically divided between the most Catholic sovereigns of Spain and Portugal-the latter getting Brazil. Some three centuries later Napoleon drove John VI out of Portugal, and that monarch fled with his Court to Brazil. When things quieted down in Portugal, His Majesty returned to his beloved Lisbon; but he left behind in the "New World" as Regent, his eldest son, famed as "Dom Pedrc of Brazil." When Brazilians and their Regent presently...