Word: lateral
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Then they removed the juice from their mouths and rubbed it on the face and arms of Capt. Cook. He was fed with the flesh of sacrificed animals, washed down by the remains of the juice. Every day there were new ceremonies, until Capt. Cook sailed away several weeks later. One of his crew had died; the Hawaiians thought that rather peculiar, but otherwise they were satisfied with the visit of the Great White...
When Capt. Cook returned a week later, they were already convinced that he was no god. Trouble brewed. Early one morning, Capt. Cook and his men tried to capture the king as hostage for a stolen cutter; the natives attacked, stabbed Capt. Cook. . . . Years later, the breastbone of Capt. Cook was found among the sacred relics of one Hawaiian clan...
...Yoakum detests politics in business not for business. Last May, he urged President Coolidge to veto the McNary-Haugen bill. Later, he telegraphed the President his approval of the veto. When Senator Fess talked on farming at the Republican Convention, he used many of Mr. Yoakum's most comprehensive phrases. Senator Borah used the Yoakum farm figures. When Nebraska's governor, plump Adam McMullen, repudiated his own "farmers crusade" last June, it was after he had received a telegram from Mr. Yoakum...
Royalists recalled that a Pretender to the Throne of France and all his sons are automatically and forever banished from the soil of the Republic. None the less the French Republican Government is not an enemy country. King Jean III during the War carried messages and was later allowed to do Red Cross work among "his people." With all to gain and nothing to lose, except his life, he was often in the front line trenches but escaped unscathed...
...hour later, Elena, a 137-footer, sailed across the finish line to capture the King's cup for Class A yachts. Her sailing time was 16 days, 21 hours.* Miss Helen G. Bell, daughter of the Elena's owner, wrote a seaworthy account of the voyage for the New York Times. She told of one rough afternoon and night: "The ship heeled over until the lee rail was awash and now and then as she shipped seas over the stern the water raced down the scuppers. "When I turned in for the night the sky was covered with ominous black...