Word: easterner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since the death of Poland's Marshal Joseph Pilsudski there has been no picturesque, magnetic figure in Eastern Europe to compare with Hungary's Admiral Nicholas Horthy. He lives with quarterdeck simplicity in a small palace on the heights of Buda overlooking Pest, rules with the title of "His Serene Highness the Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary," gives the most brilliant balls in Europe in the Habsburg Palace across the way from his own, but never sleeps on the premises of the King and Emperor who does not exist in fact, although by legitimate inheritance the throne...
Though persons who have heard it say that the band knocks out some of the best music on Eastern gridirons, students have so far failed to contribute anything more negotiable than applause. Few forget the embarrassing moment two falls ago when a hat was passed around the stadium to send the group to Princeton. Few realize the length of the expense sheet of a big band, running from trips and uniforms to polish and pressing, even though Harvard is lucky that the Puritan tradition forbids bearskin shakos and braid. Failure to appreciate these costs is principally to blame...
Such outstanding men as Carl "Mutt" Ray, a fixture at center for the last three seasons, Johnny Handrahan and Dave Camerer, All-Eastern choices for fullback and tackle respectively, and other mainstays of the Dartmouth eleven that went through the 1936 season with but one defeat and one tie in as difficult a schedule as has been faced by any Indian team to date were taken away via the graduation route...
General Accord. Meeting in Geneva, the League of Nations' Far Eastern Advisory Committee received news of the President's speech six hours before it was delivered. Promptly the wheels of diplomacy began to revolve as scheduled. The Committee drew up a resolution carefully avoiding the word "war," but condemning Japan as an "invader," and accusing her of an infringement of the Nine-Power Treaty (guaranteeing China's territorial integrity) signed in 1922 by China, Japan, the U. S., Great Britain, France, Italy, The Netherlands, Belgium, Portugal. Next day, in Geneva, the League Assembly unanimously adopted the Committee...
Inducted with ceremonies quaint and traditional, three new presidents of three old eastern U. S. colleges last week spoke solemnly of what they saw beyond their academic walls...