Word: lateral
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoover was waiting. President Hoover took his callers to her. Mrs. Hoover, Ishbel and Lady Isabella Howard at once began to chat, joined by Statesman Stimson. President and Prime Minister stood apart, talking earnestly for twelve minutes. Keynote No. 2. Back at the British Embassy some 30 minutes later, the Prime Minister received about 200 newsgatherers. "All that I put in a plea for is that disagreement never be aggravated by misunderstanding," he said. "Neither your President, I believe, nor myself-I can certainly talk for myself- have any idea of spending much time in discussing details. We should like...
...days later in a message to the Chamber of Deputies' Finance Committee M. Painleve explained that plans to fortify France's northern and eastern frontiers will take five more years to complete, cost a hundred million dollars. Wrote...
...Later the wife discovers her husband at close quarters with a lady from next door. Surfeited with his infidelity and his philosophy-"You have all my love, but not all my passion"-she lures the golf champion to her bedroom to expunge her love for her husband from her heart. This rash maneuver is not very convincing, but it does give pith to the advertisement which appeared last week in all Manhattan theatre programs: "What you think of this play may start an interesting discussion. Talk it out over a big plate of HORTON'S ICE CREAM...
...city, he took a street-girl to a dance hall, where she was insulted and he accidentally killed the offender. The blunt ritual of the courts sent him to prison for ten years. There, in the cancerous association of evil men, he learned the criminal code. Six years later, when he happened to witness a murder within the prison walls, he refused to "squeal'' and was hurled to the dungeons for the third degree. Harassed, broken, he slew his inquisitor and himself. He did not know that the warden had signed an order for his pardon...
...room and is admirably behaved in every respect. What the audience knows, and Miss Lawrence does not, is that the Prince is really the valet and the valet the Prince. They have exchanged rank for the evening. What Miss Lawrence knows, and the audience only later discovers, is that she is really a parlor maid. This she is forced to admit when the real Prince playfully introduces her mistress. Baroness von Rischenheim, in the guise of a serving maid. But with masks discarded, and the curtain about to descend, these Viennese sports have only begun...