Word: lateral
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...profoundly different rut. In 1922 the Nationalists, who have since conquered all China, were an insignificant group of zealots dominating only the region of Canton. On an income from local taxes of only one million dollars per month they could not finance a China-conquering expedition. Two years later young T. V. Soong was called to the Nationalist Finance Ministry...
Still under indictment for murder last week, but by no means under arrest, was that frank and open swaggerthug, General Chang Tsung-chang, rich with the loot of Shantung, his former bailiwick. Fortnight ago Chang was-as he later expressed it-"handling a pistol." The thing went off and killed handsome young Prince Hsien Kai, cousin of China's deposed Boy Emperor Henry P'u-yi ("Henry") (TIME, Aug. 12). The shooting occurred in the garden of Chang's hotel at Beppu, a Japanese island summer resort. Last week the Beppu police made no protest when indicted...
...McCord, she paraded down the main street of Galveston in the first crinoline that town ever saw. Her charms thus enhanced induced old Isaacs Menken, vocal teacher, to make her a Jewess and his bride. A memory of her first love drove her from Menken's hearth, but later gave morbid ardor to her acting of Lady Macbeth in New Orleans. In New York she became a poetess and the wife of Heavyweight Champion John C. Heenan. Her acting in Mazeppa brought her fame. This was the sensational play wherein, as a Tartar boy, she wore the first boyish...
...fact upon which he had calculated. But at that speed the twist of the motor forced one wing to feather the water. He figured out a way of overcoming the effect of the torque. The propeller sucked something up from the water and bent itself, an unforseen event. Later, leisurely, safely and, if possible, secretly Lieutenant Williams was to actually fly his Mercury along Chesapeake Bay before taking her to England for his mightiest air exertion...
...tires; $26 for four wheels; $52 for a body; $16 apiece for cushions; and $1.50 a day for workmen (ten or twelve). The car cost $554 complete and $594 with a tonneau and sold for $750 and $850. Ford himself got $3,000 a year, but Frederick J. Haynes, later president of Dodge Brothers, refused to work for Ford at $2,500 a year, because he was not sure where the money would come from...