Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tradition. In this case I strongly suspected that a few traditions would do the young man's family no harm whatever. (He is a mere acquaintance: I hardly know the fellow, really.) My own family, I am happy to report, resembles the socially prominent families of the East in its loyalty to family traditions. As an instance, we wear nothing but Munsingwear garments next to the skin. Nothing else will do, you understand. Moreover, of late a new tradition has taken hold: we are becoming quite athletically inclined, and as a result have now used six bottles of Absorbine...
...mustache as Josef Pilsudski, 16th Century King Istvan Batory, born a Hungarian, was smart enough in his brief, ten-year reign to try to expand Poland to both the Baltic and Black Seas. He smashed the Russian Tsar's armies. conquered Danzig and regained a part of the East Baltic coast, died before he could reach the Black Sea. For a little while then Poland was the No. 1 power between western and eastern Europe...
...west of the Mississippi have had to meet this same sort of contingency before. The Western and Southern railroads reduced their fares before the Eastern railroads did. The bus companies met their reductions and met them successfully. There is no reason to believe that the bus operators of the East now to be affected will be any less successful...
...Washington, D. C. last week went Baritone Lawrence Tibbett, not to sing but to lobby. As president of American Guild of Musical Artists, Inc., Mr. Tibbett sought the ear of the House Immigration Committee. Chairman of that committee is a citizen of Manhattan's lower East Side named Samuel Dickstein, who made his political reputation framing tenement and kosher food laws. Mr. Tibbett had come to persuade Mr. Dickstein & committee that the present arrangement by which foreign musical artists are permitted to perform in the U. S. is far from kosher to the musical profession...
...Angeles to fight Lee Ramage, he offered Leroy Haynes a job as sparring partner. Haynes refused, offered to fight Louis instead. Louis' managers countered with an offer to manage Haynes. Wary lest he fail to receive a full share of their attention, Haynes declined again, decided to go East. If he failed to make a living with his fists, he knew he could depend on a baritone voice so good that Orchestra Leader Fred Waring had offered to pay for his singing lessons...