Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This is the first of a series of six illustrated public lectures dealing with archaeological excavations in Egypt, the Near East, and Crete, which are to be given in the Semitic Museum. The other lectures, all at 4 o'clock...
...drummed out piano scales long before she was given her first violin. But the fiddle revealed her talent. At 9 she had progressed so far that she was taken the 60 miles to San Francisco several times a week to study with Kathleen Parlow, who suggested the first trip East. Indomitable Mrs. Edwards was easy to convince. Money was scarce but there was the 10-year-old, seven-passenger Marmon and Son Carl, 16, to drive it. The Edwards motored East to the Berkshire Festival, motored back again as far as Lovelock, Nev., where the Marmon caught fire...
...public figure, makes news more frequently as yachtsman than banker. Now 57, he went to Harvard (Class of 1899), worked in J. P. Morgan & Co. for a year, has been in the family bank ever since. Few years ago he built a new town house on Manhattan's East 93rd Street, there carries on the old Baker custom of lavish Christmas Day receptions, with a big present for each guest...
...efforts had been so undistinguished that Mr. Baroni got him for the modest sum of $3,500. He took the horse to California with the rest of his string. Top Row promptly began to win races. A small, unimpressive, 4-year-old bay colt, he returned to the East last summer to run against horses far out of the claiming class. Partly because Top Row's earlier achievements had been so limited, partly because his owner was emphatically outside that circle of socialite owners whose names are supposed to make racing news glamorous, sportswriters paid remarkably little attention...
Tracing the movement of peoples from East to West across the U. S., Princeton's Professor Woodrow Wilson in 1895 pleaded for a cultural give-&-take between both sections. " 'Tis thus," concluded the future President of the U. S., "we shall renew our youth and secure our age against decay...