Word: laterally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then something happened to Dick Knight. One autumn Manhattan's stock-market collapsed; but it was not that. He began to drink hard, and kept it up for seven years; but it was not that either. It was a delusion of grandeur, he thought later, brought on by too much money and power: that and boredom, the emptiness of going through the same old triumphs. Dick Knight began to act in a way that no longer amused anybody. He threw his weight around, wrecked his friends' apartments, kicked the windows out of a taxicab, got arrested on Fifth...
Back in August, Tabouis had written: "The Reich Army will join Hungary's General Staff in a common offensive against Rumania." Two weeks later, when Germany invaded Poland, Hungary was neutral. Said Tabouis, two days before Stalin signed a trade agreement with Hitler: "Foreign observers in Berlin learned last night that a basis for agreement has been reached in Moscow by France, England Russia, Poland, Rumania and Turkey...
Cried Browder later: "A beautiful reception. The students were beautifully behaved." The American Civil Liberties Union congratulated President Seymour. Whooped the New York Daily News: 3,000 BOOLA Boo BROWDER AT YALE. But the World-Telegram, which believes that the Browder menace is no laughing matter, hissed: "Liberalism ... has its sophomore class...
...overwhelming majesty of its full song. How or why he obtains, in the pursuit of his ideal of perfection, the almost terrible beauty of tone that he draws from every single player is the ultimate mystery and miracle that nobody can solve and nobody can duplicate." Lawrence Oilman: "In later years what we know to be the truth about him will not be believed. It will survive as a legend and a myth, a fable scarcely conceivable as fact. ... He ceases to be merely the devoted literalist, and becomes the inexplicable lifegiver, the master of a secret vision...
...soon turning out waltzes to beat the band. At the peak of his career he visited the U. S., conducted one gigantic concert with a chorus of 20,000 and 100 assistant conductors, was so frightened by the experience that he scurried back to Vienna for good. Seventeen years later, in 1889, a new popular musical movement had begun to sweep Johann and his waltzes into history. It came from the U. S. and it was in 4/4, not ¾, time. The Waltz Kings were succeeded by a March King: John Philip Sousa...