Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Japan. To London last week from Tokyo British correspondents cabled that the leading Japanese dailies had suddenly started advocating in concert this idea: Japan should forthwith occupy "effete" Britain's territories in the Far East while her attention is monopolized by Egypt and Italy...
...London last year by Ellsworth Vines, professional tennis has never progressed far outside the U. S. It has developed few players of its own, rarely shown signs of achieving a dignity beyond that of exhibition matches. O'Brien's tours draw their biggest crowds in the East, their most serious patrons in California. Their worst behaved galleries were in Iowa, where spectators were slow to learn that loud chatting and peanut shelling are not good manners at tennis matches. Never likely to rival either Tilden or Lenglen as a drawing card, Ethel Burkhardt Arnold is at least likely...
...Museum of Natural History's famed ornithologist, who took up singing after he resigned from the editorial staff of Doubleday, Doran, met Gladys Swarthout in an opera house at Florence. She was born on Christmas day in 1904, likes to cook kidneys en brochette, plays golf, skis. Her East End Avenue apartment is distinguished by pearl-grey walls, a tea service presented to Mr. Chapman's great-great-grandfather, and the smell of lilacs which Gladys Swarthout likes so much that she had it mixed in the shellac used on her furniture...
...East v. West. In San Francisco's annual braggadocian gesture toward the Rose Bowl, East, with eight Midwesterners including five All-Americas on its starting lineup, smothered West...
...vicissitudes of a great actress who falls pretty low. Her woes are made known to the world by an inquisitive but charming newshound, and in this way they form a diverting fule. The histrionic ability of Kay Francis, playing the title role, is open to question, but the supporting east is brilliant...