Word: easts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Artillery roared one day last week around the mud-banks that embrace Kowloon Bay, in answer to a saluting salvo from the U. S. S. Pittsburgh, steaming in. It was Diplomat-Admiral Mark Lambert Bristol, commander of U. S. naval forces in the Far East, arriving to pay Hongkong the first visit of his current assignment. After a week in British Hongkong, he meant to proceed 100 miles up the Canton River to Canton to investigate the South China "situation." At the proper moment, Hongkong's Governor, Sir Cecil Clementi, entertained Admiral Bristol & aides with a state dinner. Admiral...
Last fortnight, irate, a Mrs. A. E. Spangler of Washington wrote to Southern Senators and said: "Where are all our distinguished statesmen and scholars, who know their South as they do their prayers, that this Charlie Chaplin of New York's east side, friend of the bootlegger and saloonkeeper, is invited to describe the achievements of the South at the dedication of this shrine to the South's greatest soldier? Are our men and women afraid to oppose the will of Tammany that they offer no protest to such an insult to the memory of General...
...raise. In military matters I found him most assured; a bit flamboyant and boastful and with a tendency to exaggerate his successes. However, he is exceedingly astute, knows the country well, and, with luck breaking even, can remain in the field indefinitely. By keeping the mountainous country north and east at his back, he cannot be cut off by 2,500 marines or 5,000; and he can shuttle back and forth . . . across Nicaragua, enjoying a fairly adequate food supply, tapping rich agricultural sectors, and passing rapidly from point to point; whereas the American troops, to cover this same region...
...Russia in the Far East," Professor Karpovich, Sever...
...Klux Klan, one reads, is dying out. Either this statement is false, and the invisible Empire still exists in all its potency, or some one in Cambridge has committed an anachronism. In either case, the merry days of melodramatic anonymous letters and stones east through windows have returned, not only in the mystery plays so prevalent now, but in real life. A group of undergraduates is warned against holding a debate: a window is broken, and a still more threatening note received; the Cambridge police come and stand guard around the beleaguered clubhouse; a weird series of events to take...