Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Scottish immigrant, David G. Blythe was born May 9, 1815 in a forest clearing near East Liverpool, Ohio. At 16 he was apprenticed to a Pittsburgh woodcarver, later moved on to New York to enlist in the Navy as ship's carpenter. As a boy he had been good at drawing funny likenesses of his neighbors. When his enlistment was up he drifted back to his home town, set up as an itinerant portrait painter. In those pre-camera days that meant a steady living, a free & easy life...
...Painter Blythe became engaged to pretty, popular Julia Keffer of East Liverpool, settled down over a store in Uniontown, Pa., seat of Fayette County. He was commissioned to carve a huge wooden statue of Lafayette for the new county courthouse, which made citizens of nearby Waynesburg, seat of Greene County, want a similar monument to General Greene. When he asked $300 for the job, Waynesburgers hotly replied that they did'"not propose to give him the whole county for his work," hired a local craftsman. Painter Blythe retorted with a long poem in the Uniontown newspaper criticizing Waynesburg...
Captain Gregory's Dollar Liner President Garfield had just docked on its regular round-the-world schedule. Passengers had complained of insolence and insubordination among the crew. One gentleman from East Orange roared: "Rottenest bunch of Red agitators I've ever seen!" Another said he was roundly berated by a steward whom he addressed as "boy." Dollar Line officials declared they were making a sincere effort to maintain the best possible service under the circumstances...
...Racer crossed the Alleghenies in a cold fog. Over the radiotelephone from the airport at Pittsburgh came reassuring word of good visibility below 1,700 ft. Pilot Ferguson listened to the staccato hum of the radio-beacon in his earphones, reported his position as ten miles east of Pittsburgh, said he was coming down to land. Nellie Granger poked her head into the pilot's cabin, asked him what time they would be down. Said Ferguson, "About 10:12." The hostess went aft, saw that the eleven passengers had clasped their safety belts...
...Portland, Ore. At his Episcopalian christening his sponsors gave him the name of John Silas Reed. He grew up to be a gangling, delicate boy, good at swimming, headstrong and difficult in class. "Defiance was not a principle with him; it was an instinct." His family sent him east to school, then to Harvard. Reed soon became a well-known but not a popular member of his class. Fiercely ambitious, fiercely sensitive, he was regarded as pushing and unsound...