Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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vanished into the darkness to the east. Newshawks playing small-hour poker in the club car heard, and realized that what they heard was not political enthusiasm but hero worship...
...Shaw comes from New Orleans where he was once a champion bicycle racer. Nearing 60, he has grey hair, a ruddy face, a diamond stickpin in his tie. He is the only bookmaker in the East, as Tom Kearney of St. Louis is the only one in the West, to make a winter book on the Kentucky Derby. He owns a stable of six or seven horses, races them in the name of his lawyer John J. Robinson. His headquarters on Broadway are listed as a real-estate office. He began making books in New York...
...went through the Black Country north of Birmingham, the pottery district of Staffordshire (Arnold Bennett's Five Towns), the slums of Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, visited Blackpool (England's Coney Island), the collieries of East Durham. Everywhere he found something to interest and perturb him. His conclusions: "You go up and down this country and what makes you jump with astonishment and delight is something that has been there for at least 500 years. ... I find it difficult to believe in the God who inspired the creators of Beverley Minster. But I am beginning to find it even more difficult...
...EAST AND WEST?W. Somerset Mauglam?Doubleday, Doran...
...magazine stories and thus in his own mind damn them. That is foolish. No form of art is produced unless there is a demand for it and if newspapers and magazines did not publish short stories they would not be written." All but two of the stories in East and West were published in the Cosmopolitan Magazine, whose editor, Ray Long, sometimes cut them to fit but never otherwise edited them...