Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Muttering hoarsely, the gun-woman scurried around the bench and let four more shots fly at the terrified old jurist. A bullet in the right hip knocked him down a second time. A bullet in the left thigh knocked him down a third time. A bullet grazed his knee just before bailiffs over-powered his would-be murderess...
...ashes which remained in the U. S. were left in Boston with Mrs. Rose Sacco, whose plans for them were indefinite...
...Marja (Mariana) Michalska, named Gilda Gray by Sophie Tucker, was born in Krakow, Poland, and early came to the U. S. with her laborer father. She married a bartender and left him to earn her own living, which she started to do in vile "honkytonks" with sawdust on the floor-at eight dollars a week. She once related that when she went to conquer Manhattan the city so nearly conquered her that she and a girl who came with her from the west decided to kill themselves. Now she is one of the most highly paid dancers in the world...
When the Tsar abdictated in 1917, M. Trotzky left the U. S. for Russia, but was arrested and taken ashore by the British at Halifax and kept in jail until the Provisional Government of Russia. demanded his release. He entered Russia a few weeks later at about the same time as Lenin, with whom he worked in preparation for the famed November revolution that set the seal of Bolshevism over all the Russias. His part in preparing for the Bolshevist revolution is admittedly hardly less than that of Lenin himself, and he is regarded by some as the greater organizing...
...Grant for memoirs of her husband, Ulysses S. Grant. Mark Twain was a founder of The Players, as was Augustin Daly. Another treasure of The Players is one of the finest theatrical libraries in the world. On the upper floor are Booth's old apartments just as he left them when he died there, a book of poems he was reading left open on the table. The bedroom is never used; the sitting-room serves as meeting place for the directors...