Word: lateral
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Isobel Stone with her sister Margaret was compelled to earn a living. This she did, being of artistic inclination and equipped with some vocal talent, by singing. After making her debut with Aphrodite in Manhattan, she joined the San Carlo Opera Company, with which she sang Siebel in Faust. Later she became the understudy for more noteworthy performers; of late, a chorus girl, a hanger on at rehearsal halls and an ofttime entertainer or hostess at night clubs, Isobel Stone was compelled to relinquish the idea of a rent-paying existence. Luckily one Gus Clark offered her his dingy...
...from Illinois to Nebraska intending to practice law and steer clear of politics, but "he could no more keep out of politics than the Old Soak could pass the swinging door." Elected to Congress at the age of 30, he was immediately conspicuous for his violent eloquence. Six years later (1896) he, a shrewd politician, achieved the Democratic nomination after the famous "Cross-of-Gold" speech in which he canonized free silver...
...journalism and shortage of advertisements. For on principle Bryan refused to accept advertising of trust-made goods, though his sheet "reeked with patent medicine advertising." Indifferent to his meagre advertising columns, he reveled in belaboring the Republicans for their sins, championed religious freedom (the Dayton trial was 22 years later), applauded T. R.'s trustbusting, deplored his inviting Booker T. Washington to dine...
...love she herself had known so fleetingly, tells Brook why she need not obey her "father." In a frenzy of dutiful adolescent loyalty to this man who had treated her as his own, Brook escaped from Tony to Constantinople with a missionary friend of Caleb, and not till years later did she realize what her mother had wished for her. For luckily an English husband rescued her from the missionaries, and later a lover in Paris rescues her from her duty. That she is glad to be rescued, in spite of criticism, consummates at last her mother's ideal...
...Later, as everyone knows, Tilden was drubbed by both Lacoste and Cochet, in England and the U. S. France captured the Davis Cup as well as every important singles championship...