Word: lateral
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...McBride shot him dead. Reporter Tsunekawa of the Osaka Mainichi Shimbun and Reporter Saburo Suzuki of the Tokyo and Osaka Asahi sat among 105 telegraphers and sent stories by direct cable to Japan. In 15 Chicago public schools children marched two by two into assembly halls, listened to broadcasting, later told their fathers, many of whom complained by letter against "miseducation.'' Eight ticket scalpers were arrested and let off. One J. A. Norwood, who had come from Texas, and a hundred other people presented tickets they had bought from scalpers and were sent home. Mrs. Stanley Field dropped...
...Wilmington, Del., one Thomas Gerstenberg, club footballer, was hurt in a game, took time out. resumed playing. Three days later he discovered he had broken his neck...
Just before dawn, one morning a fortnight ago, all seemed quiet on the University of Illinois' midwestern front. But the rambling campus slept fitfully, for later in the day undergraduates were to elect sophomore, junior, senior class officers. Not for some time had the political position of the fraternity cabal been challenged. But this fall, one John Granata, brother of Pete Granata, Chicago precinct captain in Morris Eller's "bloody twentieth" ward, had rallied about him the "barbarians" (non-fraternity men) to form an independent party...
...Queen. In England a woman once bore a daughter and was later beheaded by the child's father. The woman: prim-mouthed Anne Boleyn. The husband: vain, red-bearded, argumentative Henry VIII. The daughter: Queen Elizabeth...
...this strange, enigmatical woman shaping her plots and counterplots, bolstering all that was vigorous in British government and culture. The tall but awkward Essex, 25, took Leicester's place as Queen's favorite when the Queen was over 50, long nosed, toothless, petulant. A few years later, harassed by his insubordination, she signed his death warrant. Alternating between vicious whim and heroism, no admirer ever brought her a full, rich, personal love. When she died, no man's hand could, by her will, touch her body to embalm...