Word: east
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...chauffeur that they have knocked down a child--"a wisp of a girl, poorly clad, whose pinched face spoke the lack of food." From this point on the old millionaire buys Christmas presents until along toward the end, when we hear of "the star which they saw in the East"; and catch from the mother of the wisp that ever-beautiful sentiment, "God bless you, Mr. Campbell. My dead husband once worked for you, and he said you were a hard man. But he surely was wrong." And all this time, "Somehow his heart seemed very light and young within...
...names of the newly elected editors are as follows: James Alexander Fowler, Jr., 2L, of Troy, ala,; Charles Pinckney Hough, Jr., 3L, of Jefferson City, Mo,; James Leroy Lafferty 3L, of each Orange, N. J.; George Edward Observe 2L, of Oscawana, N. Y.; Harold Frederick Reindel 2L. of East Cleveland, Ohio; and Stanley Winthrope Schaefer 3L, of Richmond...
...Navy Yard; only in Halifax the property was less valuable, and the wharves and buildings more scattered; two-fifths of it was railway frontage, two-fifths Imperial docks and barracks, and only one-fifth private property. In size and sort, the residential area destroyed would almost correspond to East Boston. And beyond the area of practical destruction enormous damage has been caused by the peculiar vicious swiftness of the explosion. Thirteen hundred persons have been killed and a great many more wounded. Nothing like the amount of blinding has ever been observed in a disaster of this sort...
...long as the war lasts and there is need to support these ex-military undertakings, we shall do our part. Today we are asked to give what we can to aid stricken Halifax. What that city needs above all things is money. Conditions there are such that the entire East must respond to the call for help in order to relieve the fearful suffering. It is likewise most necessary to reconstruct and reorganize completely and immediately a port of so great importance to Canada and to the Allies. We are not asked to deprive ourselves of our entire fortunes...
...three wise men of the East are looking up at something on the front cover of the new Lampoon. It may be the bomb bursting in air or merely the printed legend, "Christmas Number," but there is something worth looking over anyway. The front cover is rather impressive, by the way--much better in its colors of red and blue and its unusual theme than a "Merry Xmas" affair, done in the orthodox red and green. Not a holly leaf in sight, either. You take the laurel sprig for this num- ber, Lampy...