Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Along with Charles Sheeler's Shaker Buildings, Georgia O'Keeffe's This Autumn, Thomas Benton's Over the Hill, Leon Kroll's Road Through Willows, Edward Hopper's East Wind Over Weehawken, Henry Billings' Martha's Vineyard Sound, Reginald Marsh's Coney Island Beach and Grant Wood's Arbor Day, one canvas is notably eyeworthy: John Steuart Curry's The Fugitive, in which a terrified half-naked Negro hides against a tree trunk from a lynching mob while two red butterflies drift past his feet...
Meauwhile, as Kenneth P. Kempton '12, instructor in English, and non-resident tutor in Winthrop House, directs his players through their preliminary paces, carpenters have finished the erection of an unobtrusive unpainted stage, measuring 24 by 10 by 4 feet across the east end of the Common Room, and other artisans are expected shortly to appear to complete the decoration of the stage, and execute the engineering feat of hanging the curtatu...
Congressmen Samuel Dickstein, from Manhattan's lower East Side, and John W. McCormack, from South Boston, picked up the fantastic story and summoned the doughty warrior from his home at Newtown Square, Pa., to a closed hearing of the Un-American Activities Committee...
Said Glenn ("Pop") Warner, onetime Stanford Coach who began coaching at Temple last year: "I know of no team in the East or South that will have a clearer right to make the trip [to Pasadena] and I hope if we go to the Rose Bowl, we meet Stanford." Unbeaten Temple, with a giant sophomore back named Dave Smukler who passed, kicked and ran like an All-American, gave point to his boast, 22-to-0, against Villanova...
...year-executive smugly viewing the man-made greenness of the Bronx River Parkway; Miss $15-a-week dictation sponge engulfing a hectic ham-on-rye; sunshine on the glories of Park Avenue; the same sunshine on the littered, crowded alloys of Mike Gold's 606 playground (the East Side); Fifth Avenue jammed with taxis, limousines and fur-clad ladies with good dogs; dismal parks replete with dejected souls, magnificent churches disgorging uplifted souls; bustling symbolic Wall Street, beggars, radicals, bankers, gangsters; longshoremen--a consolidated mass of humanity, steel and stone. The book is arranged on the thin theme...