Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With Berlin boiling about Jews, Dr. Schacht sped up to cool East Prussia, opened the Konigsberg Fair with a bold declaration that Nazi extremism is "damned dangerous...
Meanwhile hoary but dynamic old General Emilio de Bono, one of the Big Four of the March on Rome and now Governor General of Italy's East African colonies, sent to Rome the first precise report on what has been done in the past six months to turn sleepy little ports in Eritrea and Italian Somaliland into deadly advance war bases...
...Last week Japanese officials were nervous as cats lest such a loan result from the visit to China of the Paitish Treasury's biggest mobile gun, Sir Frederick Leith-Ross. bland Chief Economic Adviser to His Majesty's Exchequer, who is steaming this week toward the Far East...
...series of wild scrambles, hits a jerky forehand that looks better suited to a flyswatter than a tennis racket and wins on steadiness, indefatigable nerve and the brains which most women players either signally lack or fail to use. As Ethel Burkhardt, she learned tennis in San Francisco, went East at 20 in 1929, reached sixth place in national ranking in 1930, then married a carpet salesman and dropped out of major play. She called attention to her reappearance this year by winning in quick succession the Seabright, Manchester and Maidstone tournaments, in which all the best women players...
Clay wandered from the mountains to the hop fields, from the wild coast on the west to the parched lands on the east, dodging sheriffs, thinking they were after him even when they wanted someone else. His Oregon wanderings were so extensive that Honey in the Horn sometimes reads less like a novel than like a travel book. A six-fingered Indian boy, also one of Uncle Preston's wards, befriended Clay, hid with him. Then Clay fell in love with Luce, tall, fair-skinned daughter of a wandering horse-trader, rode away with the horse-trader...