Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan's Delphic Studios he had mixed so much diluted Western impressionism that nothing Indian was left but subject matter. Others seemed purely Oriental. But occasionally it seemed as if Artist Yawalkar might yet use Western art as well as Gauguin and Matisse used the art of the East...
...bickerings of the National Bituminous Coal Commission, many of them attributable to the vigorous, Napoleonic methods of its chairman, 50-year-old Charles Hosford Jr. At year's end, however, the commission finally managed the herculean job of fixing 30,000 minimum prices for soft coal produced east of the Mississippi (TIME, Dec. 27). By last week it became apparent that the commission, in its haste, had erred on the side of being too Napoleonic. The Association of American Railroads, whose members burn 22% of U. S. soft coal, got an injunction three weeks ago against the commission...
...pseudonym of the Baroness Karen Blixen-Finecke, a slender, pale, large-eyed, middle-aged Danish woman whose divorced husband is a well-known big-game hunter, Baron Bror von Blixen-Finecke, a distant cousin of King Christian of Denmark. Married in 1914, they went out to British East Africa, where her family bought them a 6,000-acre coffee plantation in the Ngong Hills near Nairobi, capital of Kenya Colony. Following her divorce in 1921, Baroness Blixen managed the plantation alone, until collapsed coffee prices forced her to sell...
...owning aristocracy, which feels a closer relation with its slaves than the interloping middle class. With the same aristocratic naturalness she let two high-born English bachelors make her home their headquarters. They taught her the Greek poets, practiced the art of conversation, took her in a plane over East Africa, and their death, during her last weeks in Africa, was interwoven with the bitter loss of her farm...
Boasting of the only alto glockenspiel of college bands in the East, the Tiger band is going to be augmented by two Aida trumpets borrowed from the Metropolitan Opera House. Heralds with the proper ceremony will blow a triumphant fanfare with these trumpets before each Princeton game...