Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...here to see my boss-Governor Roosevelt-and get my orders for the campaign. When I get 'em, I'll carry 'em out like a good soldier." In Manhattan the Speaker declared: "I hear that I am considered a handicap to the ticket in the East. . . . For those of you who still have some property . . . please realize I am not going to take it away. I have some myself-a little...
...workers live to the west of the Civic Centre in rows of neat cottages set in flower beds. They have their fun at three municipal golf courses, lakes in the city parks, 26 mountain parks owned by Denver, amusement parks (Elitch Gardens, Lakeside). Well-to-do Denverites live east of the Civic Centre on the slightly raised extension of Capitol Hill. They spend their weekends at the Cherry Hills or Denver Country Club or on estates in the mountains. In the summer stock companies play at Elitch Gardens. Rich and poor shop at the big drygoods store of Daniels & Fisher...
Scrap Book contains a burlesque of East Lynne, a scene from King John, bits from Pagliacci and Carmen, a radio sketch, a musicomedy sketch, a torch singer, several other singers, three masters of ceremonies (one male, one female, one indeterminate), a Florodora act, etc., etc. Best act by far is a burlesque sketch in which Mae Dix, onetime Minsky burlesque girl, becomes drunk, disrobes, does strange things with her famed indiarubberlike stomach. Dorothy MacDonald also disrobes, more teasingly. At the beginning of the burlesque sketch, members of the claque run up & down the aisles selling "Feelthy pictures, feelthy pictures, Martha...
...mixed blood, has fled to African fevers as an antidote for the fever of Europe. His troubles had come to a figurehead in a famous actress, but there was more to it than that: he was suffering from "the curse which every Occidental must bear." The province of East Africa to which he goes is,the property of a company which exploits, in true conquistador style, the huge, rich, deadly land and its enslaved natives. The few European settlers stick close to the seacoast, to the unthriving port of Esperanca, cyclone-destroyed every seven years. Or they work and drink...
...Author. Like his hero, Kurt Heuser is young (27). He suffered from Europe's mental depression and took his gloomy thoughts to Africa. While he and a friend struggled with a cotton plantation in Portuguese East Africa, Heuser filled his spare time writing, sent the result apologetically to German editors. When cotton's market price sank below cost, Heuser abandoned his plantation, went home to Germany to be an author, found himself taken as a lion out of Africa...