Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...They apparently had us on the run a short time ago, but I am glad to see that now, all over the country, Republicans are plucking up courage and are back on the firing line." Such were the words, prescient of Democratic defeat, spoken at the East Side High School at Paterson, N. J., by Republican Walter Evans Edge who, as a U. S. Senator (1919-29) used to flap his elbows up & down like a buzzard in flight every time he made a speech. Date of the utterance: a fortnight before that November day in 1932 when Franklin Roosevelt...
...Laval, like Edda Mussolini, grew up her father's pal. Since a Dictator can do more for a pal than a mere statesman, Edda made her debut with a tour of the Far East on which she was showered with gifts by many a potentate, later married baby-faced Count Galeazzo Ciano who was promptly advanced through Italy's diplomatic service, and gradually promoted to his present rank of Minister for Press & Propaganda...
Beyond Mumtaz, France's medieval Eleanor of Aquitaine presides at a Court of Love as King Louis VII rides angrily home from the Crusades. At her feet, in the East Indies, slaves give a Malay lady a pedicure...
...drawing rooms of Shanghai's European colony. Assiduous cinemaddicts, who have seen it emphasized in 75% of all previous geographic problem plays, should experience small difficulty in assimilating the moral of the picture, implicit in the scene in which Dmitri and his heiress decide to part forever: East is East and West is West. This scrap of traveler's lore is hardly made to seem more stimulating or original by the events leading up to the renunciation scene, in which Dmitri effects a six-months' rise from rickshaw-boy to international financier while his inamorata is gracefully...
THEY DIED WITH THEIR BOOTS ON- Thomas Ripley - Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). In all the highly publicized activities of Western badmen, the multiple killings of John Wesley Hardin have been more or less neglected. A tough, blue-eyed, wavy-haired east Texas moppet who grew up when his State was occupied by Yankee troops and hated carpetbaggers, Hardin killed his first man, an ex-slave, when he was 15. In the next nine years he killed approximately 43 more. Sentenced to 25 years in prison, Hardin served 16 before he was pardoned, wrote an autobiography, studied law, practiced in El Paso...