Word: lateral
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...never told lies, so that rather than commit the wholesale falsification necessary to give his wife a divorce, he pretended to kill himself (he was not brave enough for real suicide) so that she could marry a devoted, comfortable suitor. When Fedya's ruse was discovered years later and he learned that, depending on the courts, he had either to remarry his wife or be exiled with her to Siberia for bigamy, he did find the courage to shoot himself...
...Batavia, N. Y., Elmer Schulz, four, found his father's shotgun in the kitchen, aimed it at his mother, said, "I'm going to shoot you, Mama," pulled the trigger and killed her. Said he later: "I bang Mama...
...Manhattan's Municipal Building one Mr. Burgher presented himself to be married to one Miss Eaton. When they heard the clerk call "Burke and Egan," the couple mistakenly stepped forward, went through the brief legal ceremony. Later Mr. Burke and Miss Egan arrived and the mistake was realized. By that time Bridegroom Burgher and Bride Eaton, unmarried, were somewhere on their honeymoon...
...Pete was the first and only legitimate child of his mother Mabel, an Ojibway Indian girl of northern Michigan. Later he had a sister and two brothers. When Mabel's husband deserted her, she was glad that she would no longer be beaten, then wondered how she would support her baby. For a while she managed, by weaving baskets and selling them to summer tourists. Then she cooked for a logging camp. Then she took men. Joe Pete grew, watched what was going on loved his mother, took care of the other children, said nothing. When the Lithuanian Jaakkola...
...roof was covered with sheets of lead. Eventually he escaped, with the help of a fellow-prisoner, by cutting a hole in the roof, then clambering down and into a window of the palace. He wandered to Paris, London, Moscow, Warsaw, Berlin, Barcelona, always getting in trouble sooner or later over gambling, women, or trickery. In Vienna he was arrested by the Chastity Commissioners; in Paris he ran a state lottery; in Warsaw he fought a duel with Count Branicki; in Rome he was decorated by the Pope; in Switzerland he spent a week with Voltaire; in Berlin...