Word: east
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years ago, a young man from Vermilion County, Ill., just graduated from DePauw University, went up to Chicago to practice law. He was a stocky, cheery, vigorous lad and got along very well. Before long he met one of the bright young men who had been associated down East with Thomas Edison in his electric-lighting companies. This young man, a short, brisk little Britisher named Samuel Insull, organized a Chicago Edison Company. The lawyer from Vermilion County, whose name was Roy Owen West, became Mr. Insull's attorney and put some money into the company. When Mr. Insull...
Saint Esprit (No. 45 East 27th street), where Protestant Episcopal services are conducted in French...
Creating such realistic scenes is the new aim of natural history museums. The American Museum has several groups of wild animals in natural surroundings. Last week it received seven lion skins, brought back from Tanganyika district of East Africa by its Carlisle-Clark African expedition. The lions will be posed at the edge of a thicket near one of the great granite boulders that stick up out of the African plains. In the distance will be herds of game (painted on a back drop). It will be sunset, the lions wakening up, stretching themselves. One lioness, with a few bristles...
...member of the Midwestern association. There are three college comic associations: the Western, including colleges west of a line drawn south through Denver; the Eastern, including colleges east of a line drawn south through Pittsburgh; the Midwestern lying between...
...Significance. War novels by the gross have detailed the lice, the mud, the oaths, on "Flanders Field." The present volume is distinctive in vivifying that other, more mysterious, no-man's-land east of Germany, west of Russia. But far more than this, The Case of Sergeant Grischa is a powerful indictment of autocratic statecraft, a pageant of heterogeneous border peoples, and a human document of uncanny understanding. The jocund vitality which lured Grischa to mad escape is no less vivid than his fatalistic reluctance to escape again. Insignificant "case," Grischa is the symbol that rouses the interest...