Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Jamaica and Cuba comes sweet, potent rum to London. It is stored in the West India Docks' "Rum Quay" warehouses north of the Isle of Dogs, where the Thames River winds through the flat slums of East London. One night last week a small fire started in a timberyard near "Rum Quay," soon got into the rum. A barrel burst, shot a fan of blue-blazing rum into the air. Soon concussions rocked the warehouse and burning rum ran in flickering blue rivers into the Thames. Blue flame fingered halfway across the Thames. London's brass-hatted...
Through a "reputable professional man," the vigilant St. Louis Post-Dispatch got hold of a letter which indicated that Tax Reviewer Throop had taken bribes to scale down assessments for certain East St. Louis manufacturers. Docile Mr. Throop, while denying the authenticity of the letter, consented at once to accompany a reporter to Springfield, where he resigned his office and confessed all to the Attorney General. Only the case of the local Elks' Club, whose tax assessment was lowered from $5,000 to $200, was made public. Investigation of others was promptly instituted...
Kipling's scriptural utterance (that "East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet") is made to appear more pontifical than profound by Authoress Wain's House of Exile, an autobiographical record of how a U. S. woman became an adopted member of an ancient, aristocratic Chinese family. Readers of Authoress Waln's book will feel that Kipling's quotation should be amended: for "East" read "Boxers"; for "West," "Little Englanders...
...second annual Amateur Air Meet, held yesterday afternoon at the East Boston Airport, the Flying Club members succeeded in gaining two first places and two seconds. Flying the club's Waco plane, B. L. Fairbank '34 won a closed course race for pilots with less than 300 hours flying time against a field of five. F. L. Spreckles '35, with a borrowed ship, annexed third place...
...Thee I Sing," Pulitzer Prize winner, endowed with an equally high-callbred beauty of an opposite type in blonde Lois Moran, has apparently swept the theatrical world of the East. Its very pace and quality is so high powered as to guarantee that it can overcome the most obdurate critic and most cynical customer...