Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dinner at Adams House on December 4. They are: Arthur Lawrence Abrams of Roxbury; Robert Calhoun Creel of Cambridge; Oscar Hirsh Davis of Mount Vernon, New York; Clement Lowell Harriss of Omaha, Nebraska; William Wallace Kirkpatrick of Chappaqua, New York; Albert Johnson Lynd of Oakland, California; David Levin of East Boston; Paul Lachlan MacKendrick of Dorchester; John Maier of Royersford, Pennsylvania; Joseph Neyer of New Rochelle, New York; Philander Silas Ratzkoff of Roxbury; Johnathan Barlow Richards of Red Oak, Iowa; John Thomas Sapienza of Irvington, New Jersey; Richard Bulger Schlatter of Fostoria, Ohio; John William Walsh, Jr. of Quincy; Dudley...
...fact that this year public education is more undernourished than ever before. Specchmakers will exhort taxpayers not to let their lawmakers cut down on education's budget. Private institutions have to levy their own taxes, from alumni and rich friends. Seven women's colleges in the East five years ago hit on the idea of banding together to get better publicity for their appeals-Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mt. Holyoke, Radcliffe, Smith, Vassar and Wellesley. In 1931 they presented their case-that they get only one-tenth as much as big Eastern men's colleges-at a Manhattan...
...organized by her, scavenging was a jittery version of the old-fashioned treasure hunt. The contestants paired off in the East Foyer, received sealed envelopes listing bizarre objects which they were expected to fetch in an hour and one-half. At a gun's bark they bolted for the elevators and rushed out into the night to find the following items...
...fair idea of the thing; since there is Jackle Cooper, there is sticky and unpleasant sentiment. Since Wallace Beery is present, there is heavy comedy; since George Raft is on the scene there is someone tough and light and virile. All these things, predicted from a reading of the east, come true. Nevertheless, the show is entertaining. Chuck Connors, a saloonkeeper, wallows about in a sea of beer and oaths, delivering beautiful blows to the jaws of his enemies, and, at one point, emitting a belch which is a classic. He is flashy and rude, with diamond horseshoes and checkered...
...Moscow, Molotov, Russian premier, declared that the USSR was prepared for a surprise attack by Japan, and, in fact, expected it. Both these declarations by statesmen of countries supposedly at peace have almost no precedent, and show with disconcerting clearness how imminent a possibility is war in the Far East...