Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When Shapiro propelled a pushcart on the Lower East Side, "Gurrah" (get out) was what Shapiro snarled at East Side pushcarters to whom he first sold "protection." Those who did not "Gurrah" got their carts pushed over...
...northwest Oregon (where annual precipitation is normally 43.17 in.). Fitful breezes made the flames doubly capricious and dangerous. Roads were closed, armies of volunteers set backfires to head off the destroyer. In Washington, the red tiger rambled from the rough hills 45 miles north of Spokane on to the east and south, eating deeply into resort towns in the Liberty Lakes country, finally jumping the border into Idaho, where 1,500 men fought the flames at Spirit Lake. With more than 200,000 acres burned & burning, the fire strode on daily toward Tillamook's record of 267,000 acres...
...Great Britain, where, with a truculence that astonished visitors, Britons were parading their naval might and displaying confidence in any impending struggle; Rumania, where natives, irritated at charges that they are lukewarm in their resistance to aggression, are now declaring they can resist alone; Turkey, key to the Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean; Poland, unshaken by the struggle over Danzig, counting on its muddy roads to bog down motorized infantry in the event of invasion and on the spirit of its people to fight if necessary, to ignore provocations until...
These things might have taken place in China last week, but they did not. They happened twelve years ago, in March 1927. For anti-foreignism is nothing new in East Asia; what is new is the reason for it. In 1927 China was becoming a unified nation for the first time in its 5,000-year history. A young General named Chiang Kaishek, though still hardly more than an ambitious warlord, was beginning to make his people realize that yellow skin was not necessarily synonymous with low estate. The Russians, to promote world revolution, were also urging a China...
...blow of 1938 merely as curtain raiser for The Ownley Inn. Before the final curtain, when the stolen New England Primer (value: $60,000) is recovered, and broken-nosed Puss Clarke makes up with his ex-fiancée, a full cast of summer folk and Down East worthies have sauntered across the stage...