<span>- Pope used experts’ testimonies to explain the positive effects of cycling. </span><span>- Pope spoke out against laws that prohibited cycling in public places.
The use of the word while in this sentence indicates that the two events happen at the same time: </span><span><em>While he nurtured the popularity of the bicycle through the press, Pope also supported legal and political efforts to establish cycling as a legitimate endeavor
</em>Pope nurture the popularity by encouraging expert to give positive testimony on cycling, and he also going to courts to the cities that outlawed cycling in public spaces.<em> </em></span>
The statement that describes a gothic element in the excerpt "The Lady Maid's Bell" that would show a social attitute at that the time of the Wharton's was "Some ladies are very stiff about having their servants’ friends in the house overnight."
