Word: east
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...made President Coolidge hurry away from the circus (Mrs. Coolidge and Suzanne Boone stayed on) was an engagement to press a button to send a current to ignite a dynamite charge to blow through the Great Northern R. R.'s new tunnel under the Cascade Mountains 100 miles east of Seattle, Wash. Many a citizen was surprised to learn that this Great Northern tunnel, 7.79 miles long, is the longest tunnel in the western world, 1.66 miles longer than the Moffat Tunnel through the Rockies near Denver, of which so much was heard when it was holed through...
...Four names were heard above the rest as the Democrats wondered whom to invite as Number Two Man of their party next November. Assuming a solidly Democratic South, leaving Candidate Smith to win for himself in the wet East, and regardless of who is the Republican nominee, there are two basic factors to consider in choosing Candidate Smith's ticket-mate...
DIAMOND LIL-Mae West in a chryselephantine interpretation of an easy lady from the old East side (TIME, April 23). FUNNY...
...LIVING BUDDHA-Paul Morand-Henry Holt ($2.50). Spengler and Keyserling have turned toward the Orient for destruction and salvation of the Occident. Far less seriously, Paul Morand, scintillating French diplomat-novelist, shows the East has much to offer the West, and the West something to the East, but that incompatibility of mind and heart will prevent any contact close enough for destruction or salvation...
...possibly tell you all the good prospects for the 440 and 880," he told the reporter. "There are so many little known men from the West Coast and even right here in the East who are very likely to upset all predictions that it makes the task a hard...