Word: lateral
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rephrased it later: "My decision never again to run is unalterable. I said I was through, and I am through, with public life. I intend to take a rest and then devote the rest of my life to my family and my friends...
...majority in the South, had said to Governor-elect Roosevelt in the North: "It's going to be either you or me in 1932, old boy, and I'm a good enough politician to see that it had better be you and me. We'll decide later which of us gets first place on the ticket...
...peppery Prime Minister expressed his satisfaction that the Laborites have now come out squarely on the issue of social and every other kind of equality for blackamoors. On that issue they can probably be beaten, when a general election rolls round; and one must legally take place not later than next spring...
Though a roar of approval went up, Herr Scheidemann attached to it so little importance that he soon went back to his bowl of soup. He did not realize what he had done until jovial Freidrich Ebert, later first President of the Republic, rushed in flushed with indignation and exclaimed: "What have you done? I hear you have proclaimed a Republic! Don't you know you had no right to do that...
Four years ago it was a full-blown opera singer who came back to the U.S., got an engagement with the Boston Opera Company, later with the San Carlo. Last week came her great triumph when she made her debut in a leading role at the Metropolitan. Papa Angelo was there, wiping away proud tears, and Mayor Michael Landers of Lawrence, to give the stamp of civic authority. Twelve times the audience called her out in front of the great gold curtains, thundered its applause. Next day a typical story named her as "the latest American Cinderella to find...