Word: lateral
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Good old Mac eventually appeared, smiling, hair tousled. Later it was announced that Finance Expert Snowden was to be the new Chancellor of the Exchequer, Union Worker Thomas was to receive the medieval title of Lord Privy Seal, to be charged with the most important of Labor's problems: solving unemployment...
...maledictions at the government, protested at the food and living conditions in Rumania's state lazaretto at Largeana, from which they had escaped. Gingerly, Rumanian gendarmes captured the gesticulating lepers. In a nearby pharmacy terrified government clerks tore off their clothes, gargled. scrubbed themselves with disinfectants. A moment later still other government clerks rushed in, shouting for chloride, plucking at their garments. A third leper had appeared at the Ministry of Health equally incensed at the food served in Rumania's lazaretto...
...automatic pistol coolly aimed by Deputy Punica Ratchitch. Each bullet found a man and brought him down, wounding four, killing two. Paul Raditch, nephew of Stefan and father of seven, was one of those who died. Stefan Raditch crumpled with a bullet in his stomach. Fifty days later, in Zagreb, Croatian Capital, he died. That was last summer. To Croats, still, the name Raditch means Hero and Martyr. They gather in thousands to cry "Zhivoi Raditch! (Hail Raditch!)." Impatiently have they waited to be avenged...
Cheered by the news of an approaching settlement of Mexico's religious problem. General Goroztieta had summoned his followers to the Hacienda Ibarra, had advised them to disband. Later he heard mass and joined the irreconcilable remnant of his army...
...lineage there always has been a grey dam or a grey sire. On the morning of the Derby there were three favorites: Cragadour, Mr Jinks, and Lord Derby's Hunter's Moon. A few people bet on a horse called Walter Gay, receiving 100 to 8 odds. They were later proved wise because Walter Gay came in second. In Belfast, Ireland was circulated a message which nobody could trace to its source: "Trigo will do the Trigo is Irish-reared, Irish-owned (Mr. William Barnett, corn-broker) Many Belfastians bet on Trigo, odds: 33 to 1. They too were proved...