Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...World-Telegram this week, Mrs. Bedaux has said, "If Charles had horns he would be the Devil," and she used to appear sometimes at parties he gave in Greenwich Village in an apartment he leased under an assumed name, transforming it now into a Japanese, now into an East Indian or other exotic setting...
...attempt to dispose of pietism, Noel interprets Christianity as a social religion looking toward a "New World Order," although he admits that this interpretation is acceptable only to a minority of Christians: "The Roman Catholic hierarchy in Italy and Spain is openly allied with Fascism; the churches of the East are pietistic and making no effective challenge against capitalist imperialism, while the Church of England, if she faintly stirs in her sleep, is far from being awake...
Divorced. Mrs. Elizabeth Eaton Guggenheim, 34, New York socialite-horsewoman ; from Colonel Meyer Robert Guggenheim, heir of the Guggenheim mining and smelting fortune; charging cruelty; in Reno. Three nights after her divorce, Mrs. Guggenheim having flown East, celebrated on Long Island with her horse trainer, John Fry Jr., 23. About dawn next morning they appealed to police with cuts, bruises, and a tale of being attacked and robbed of $460. After investigation the police intimated that it was a case not of robbery but revelry...
Died. Robert Potter Hill, 63, U. S. Representative from Oklahoma, onetime (1913-15) Representative from Illinois; of a heart attack; in Oklahoma City. Congressman Hill had been scheduled to speak at last week's meeting of the East Central Educational Association at Ada, Okla. First person who agreed to deliver the address in question was Senator Joseph T. Robinson, who died last July. Next Amelia Earhart was asked, accepted, flew off into the Pacific Ocean. After her President Henry Hardin Cherry of Western Kentucky State Teachers College at Bowling Green, Ky., accepted, and died. Dr. Melvin Everett Haggerty...
Among the 56 U. S. peaks over 14,000 ft. high, Mt. Whitney's solitary spire, rising 14,495 ft. into the California sky tops them all-highest land point in the nation. On the uplands close by lies Lake Tulainyo, highest U. S. lake. Eighty miles due east is Death Valley, 276 ft. below sea level, lowest, hottest spot in the U. S. Last week Californians celebrated the opening of 17 miles of CCC built roadway, the last link in a highway connecting the highest and lowest spots in the U. S. A gourd of mountain water dipped...