Word: lateral
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ordered to wear what decorations they possessed; Brigadier General Gough's ribbons of rank awed his companions; he was the fêted hero of the musicians, who had hitherto known nothing of his history. Reserved, unwilling to rely on his military connections to further his welfare, he later became saxophonist-director of a dance orchestra at the Club Polle, Manhattan. At this period the floorwalker, syncopater, broadcaster was earning $7,500 a year, but a malicious busybody informed the immigration authorities that he had overstayed his leave, and Versatile Gough went to Canada. Quebec offered him nothing...
...group next turned to nitroglycerine, experimented for a month. Surreptitiously Carlos Castro Balda, ex-government clerk and Manuel Trejo, Laborite, entered the cloakroom of the Chamber of Deputies, placed there one of their concoctions. Later it exploded, but too late...
Flip! The first service was spun. Into action sprang Helen Wills and Mrs. J. Saunders Taylor in the 41st annual women's championship tournament at Forest Hills, L. I. Twenty-two minutes later they shook hands, Miss Wills a 6-0, 6-1 victor over Mrs. Taylor...
...subway accident at Times Square, Manhattan, last week, killed 16 people, mangled dozens more. Mrs. Jennie Lockridge, 56, onetime actress, heard the horror, saw the shambles, became hysterical. Four days later she was dead...
Engagement Rumored. Prince Eitel Friedrich, second son of the onetime All-Highest; to Countess Mellin, onetime Baroness Wolff. When her husband contracted tuberculosis a few years ago, the Countess earned her living by keeping house for the Prince; later she divorced Count Mellin. Prince Eitel has divorced Duchess Sophie-Charlotte of Oldenburg...