Word: easterner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Berlin protesting to Der Führer that in sending his best ships into Mediterranean waters dominated by France and Britain he was risking that they might be "trapped." If there were such protests, Adolf Hitler ignored them, relying upon heavy concentrations of Italian warships off the Balearics and Eastern Spain to wreck any trap which French naval concentrations at more distant Toulon and Bone might conceivably try to spring...
Built for $750,000, run on a non-profit basis with proceeds split between the State and the Delaware Steeplechase & Racing Association, Delaware Park (near Wilmington) aims to fill the gap in fashionable Eastern racing between the closing of Belmont Park in June, the opening of Saratoga in August. Noteworthy feature of the plant is a lawn that slopes sharply down from the grandstand to the track to permit spectators to see races without going back to their seats...
...summer theatres in the U. S. that are more than 30 years old. But the migration of show business to the country in pursuit of vacationing customers did not become a general movement until the early, depressed 19305. It had started, however, in the preceding decade when stage-struck Eastern collegians-notably the Princeton group headed by James Stewart, Myron McCormick, Joshua Logan and Bretaigne Windust-began spending their vacations doing old and new plays in New England resort communities. In 1930 there were 15 active "straw hat" companies within a night's railroad ride of Manhattan...
...Germany's Lufthansa and Air France. These two national airlines agreed to cooperate in test flights across the Atlantic, share each other's bases at each end. The agreement gives Germany rights at Dakar, Senegal, for South Atlantic flights, and at Hanoi. French Indo-China, for Far Eastern flying. France won the right to use Germany's catapult ships in the Atlantic. Co-operation was necessary because France lacks planes, Germany lacks capital, and both lack rights to land in the Azores, Bermuda, Canada...
...their loneliness and feed their egos, men since the dawn of history have banded together in secret societies. Modern Free-Masons believe their order "coeval with the creation of the world by the Almighty." Plato recorded the scandalous revels of secret orders in ancient Greece. Africa has its Egbo, eastern Australia its hoary lodges where the initiation begins by knocking out the candidate's front teeth. Nowhere have secret societies flourished more luxuriantly than in the U. S. During the Revolution everyone of importance from George Washington to Lafayette belonged to them. Some subsequent samples: Daughters of the Prairie...