Word: east
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...decay. It was opened in 1869 when New York established the first ambulance service in the U. S. Its building, for decades muggy and stuffy, is older. De Witt Clinton, onetime (1803-15) Mayor of New York, laid the cornerstone in 1811. Grass spread about it then; the East River was a pleasant prospect. Now all is grime and noise...
...eleventh time Dartmouth tried to beat Yale and failed. Yale locked up Dartmouth's star, Myles Lane, in a cell of vicious tackles and won, 19-0. Though Lane went without his touchdowns he retained his lead in individual point score in the East, 101; since his nearest rival Booth of Pittsburgh (62), rested while his undefeated team sent substitutes to trample Allegheny...
...Sixteen East Gay Street is a picture of a street in Columbus, Ohio. Several people are walking along the sidewalk and a pair of children are fixing a tricycle. In the space between the two houses across the street the sky slants a light on the asphalt, and makes the leaves of the trees as bright as coins. It is late afternoon; in the golden twilight everything seems very quiet. If you look at the picture long enough, the man sitting on the porch will fold up his paper and go in to have supper...
...years ago a hotel employe in East Las Vegas, N. M., tried to separate two fighting men. One of the fighters shot; hit the peacemaker, by mistake, in the throat. The shooter was Carl C. Magee, Scripps Howard newspaper editor, his opponent David D. Leahy, a former judge who had thrice sentenced Magee to prison-once for libel and twice for contempt of court. The libel was published in Magee's Albuquerque newspaper in exposures of state government corruption. Two pardons and a habeas corpus proceedings kept Mr. Magee at large. Magee's testimony of recent prosperity...
...flew west to Worcester, leaving the East Boston airport about 1.30 o'clock," he said. "The damage to houses and property was very evident from the air, especially along the railroad tracks up the Concord River valley, which we followed after leaving Worcester...