Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tradition and culture, and both supremely materialistic in outlook. Easterners will experience a smug satisfaction in this confirmation of their oft-voiced contempt for western materialism, but a more critical examination will reveal a disconcerted irony in Mr. Tunis's glowing praise for the dusty culture of the East...
...President of the U. S. The occasion was the 200th Anniversary of George Washington's birth. Inaugurated was a nine-month patriotic celebration. At noon President Hoover addressed a joint session of Congress, attended by his Cabinet and the diplomatic corps. After his speech he appeared at the east front of the Capitol and heard 12,000 people sing "America" under the direction of Walter Damrosch and John Philip Sousa. After lunch the President motored to Alexandria, Va. to review a parade which included cadets from Virginia Military Institute, the Richmond Blues, American Legionnaries and the apparatus which George...
...young men of the village took sticks, chased the witch and beat her to death, which is the accepted punishment for witches in East Africa. For this the white man's government was demanding their death. Sixty Chicago policemen sentenced to death for shooting a racketeer could not have been more puzzled. Standing in an unblinking row the tribesmen heard the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Kenya sentence them all to be hanged by the neck until dead. The Chief Justice understood Africa as well as the law. Privately he recommended them to the Governor...
...Michel Eilshemius M. A., by his own admission painter, poet, musician, inventor, marksman, and "Ex Fancy Amateur Dancer." He loves to buttonhole strangers in hallways and describe his own superior accomplishments. He was once wealthy. He is still listed in the Social Register, lives in a brownstone house on East 57th Street and has spent a fortune on strange pamphlets and books to prove that Elshemus or Eilshemius (the spelling varies) is the greatest artist the world has ever known. Eilshemius also states that Eilshemius has written music, invented a portable piano and a game known as "Sixers"' (like...
...first year class tonight at 7.30 o'clock in the Upstairs Common Room of the Harvard Union, Professor Baxter's subject will be "Some Obstacles to Peace," and he will illustrate his subject from the recent diplomatic history of the U. S. including the present crisis in the Far East. The question will be raised why the U. S. needs to maintain a large fleet although it has pledged itself not to seek the solution of its international controversies by other than pacific means...