Word: lateral
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said he. Winchell went to a telephone and followed instructions. Then he got into his car and let Stranger No. 2 take the wheel. At 10:15 Stranger No. 2 pulled up at Madison Square and got out. "Just wait here," he said. Winchell waited. A moment later a third stranger arrived, opened the door and got in. He took off his dark glasses and threw them into the street. Winchell stepped on the gas. He slowed his car up to the curb at Fifth Avenue, got out, escorted Stranger No. 3 to a black limousine, inside which, also...
...returned, hurried and hatless, from Scotland to attend Privy Council, become a quasi-dictator and stay at Buckingham Palace, beneath whose gardens were built prodigious bombproof quarters for King, retinue, servants. Queen Elizabeth and the two Princesses stayed on at Balmoral Castle, where gas masks were issued to all. Later they would go to Windsor Castle, whose rock, looming above the fabled cricket fields of Eton, was tunneled and chambered invulnerably for them and for art treasures from Buckingham Palace as well as the Castle. Queen Mary obdurately insisted on staying at Sandringham on the dangerous east coast...
...terrible novel, decided to take up literature and politics. Informing the voters of Oldham, he was rejected. He promptly left for the Boer War as a newspaper correspondent. Captured, while defending an armored train derailed by a Boer attack, he was arrested by big, beefy Louis Botha, later Prime Minister of South Africa, locked up at Pretoria. After weeks of reading Carlyle and John Stuart Mill, in desperation he scaled the prison wall and escaped. Back at Oldham for another election...
...more than an attempt to help Russia gain access to the Mediterranean: it was to swing fence-sitting Italy to the Allied side, win the tremulous Balkans away from Germany. Defending himself after the failure with biting eloquence, Churchill used the phrase "gamble" in connection with the Naval Plan, later got an undeserved reputation of needlessly sacrificing...
...Union with which it shares the Black Sea, news of the German-Russian Pact was almost as serious a shock as it was to Germany's friend Japan. It came just as the ink was drying on a French-Turkish trade pact. It also brought on what was later described as "extraordinary pressure" from Germany. Von Papen was given an hour in which to perform his suave, bully act, then President Inönü made clear to France and Britain that he stood with them in the great lineup. Turkey, said her No. 1 editor, would stand with...