Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story of vicarious travel in the Far East, 26-year-old Oxonian Fleming first takes us along the outside rim of Red China, along the Trans-Siberian Express, from Moscow to Manchukuo. Fleming is immediately disarming as he announces that this is "a superficial account of an unsensational journey". His Anglo-Saxon honesty compels him to add "I dare say I could have made my half-baked conclusions on the major issue of the Far East sound convincing. But it is one thing to bore your readers and another to mislead them". Such frankness is, indeed, unusual...
Everything considered, Peter Fleming has done a terse, honest, dramatic piece of reporting on the situation in the Far East. In spots, his writing approaches closer to literature than journalism...
From sundown to sundown the devout turned their talus-wrapped shoulders and bowed heads toward the East in dutiful prayer. Then, as the ram's horn sounded Yom Kippur's end, Yorkville Jews scurried back to their stores for reassurance. On the front windows of more than 50 of them they found scratched in six-inch letters the word...
...purple-striped shorts that did the mischief. Looking in his code book, Mr. Sopwith found (so I am told) that a purple-striped ensign with white piping meant the second leg was to be East by East eat more yeast East is East never the twain shall meet East by East...
...Sept. 10 issue regarding the Ca-Choo Club election. . . . We want you to know that the officers were elected on the Michigan side of the boundary, where the club was organized in 1928. . . . Every year increasing . . . the membership of this international club was 167, registered from as far east as New York and as far west as California. They stay from four to six weeks in this haven where there is no ragwreed within one hundred miles...