Word: east
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile, smashing the Bayou de Glaize line of defense, flood waters swept through the sugar-belt district of Louisiana, threatened to add 125,000 new refugees to the total of flood fugitives. The Bayou de Glaize defenses ran, roughly speaking, east and west through Avoyelles Parish, about 90 miles north of the Gulf of Mexico. Having broken through this line on a front of some 25 miles (in a straight east-west line) the water was expected to continue almost unhindered to the Gulf. It should empty into the Bays of Vermilion and the Cote Blanche, some 100 miles west...
...Conference later adjourned into committees where such contentious matters as the proposed new Federation of East Africa will be thrashed out behind closed doors...
Stretching back into Africa from Zanzibar on the Indian Ocean are four British areas* which Premier James Barry Munnik Hertzog of the Union of South Africa has long urged should achieve unity as the Federation of East Africa...
...EAST INDIA AND COMPANY?Paul Morand?A. & C.Boni ($2.50). Perhaps when a Parisian sophisticate visits the Orient he is able to discover there an array of feminine beauty equal to that discovered in Paris, and an aroma of sophistication as pungently delicate as that with which he perfumes his handkerchiefs and his prose. If this is true, the short stories in this book are more than infinitely trivial, infinitely graceful potboilers...
...course "Katja" has great odds to face. It is advertised as being a visual and auricular knock out in New York, London, Paris, Berlin and points both east and west. Its producers announce it to Boston as the continental equivalent of what is known in contemporary parlance as a wow. And now "Katja" turns out to be something much less than a wow. One can mention two possible causes for this decline and fall of what is evidently a good operetta in other places; one is the cast which, with the exception of an energetic young lad with a flare...