Word: easts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...name as a primary candidate, rejoicing that he now had a chance to get nominating votes in his home State, where, while the caucus system prevailed, he was at the mercy of the State Bosses, Mayor Thompson of Chicago and Governor Len Small. Lowdenites felt better about the East, too. Following their still-pond-no-more-moving policy, State Bosses Hilles and Morris of New York made known that any old boom might come to their State and try to get delegates. The small Lowden headquarters in Manhattan closed, but only because the Lowdenites were going to make bigger & better...
Within the casket were what Howard Carter expected to find-four Canopic jars, rotund and high-shouldered. Each stood for one of the tutelary demons of the dead -dog-headed Hapt (Hepy*) who represented the north, man-headed Amset for the south, ape-headed Duamutef for the east, falcon-headed Kebhsenuf for the west. They had no power to wither the modern hands which gripped the covers of the jars and twisted gently. Removal was not difficult for each cover had a knob on it. Craftsmen had carved the knobs into careful and duplicate images of TutankhAmen's head...
Consternation sent animals racing to their jungle cover on the Island of Komodo (one of the Dutch East Indies). A bird droned like a million flies above the trees...
...tuberculosis, that he stopped to think. Soon he wrote his first play and proceeded to George Pierce Baker's famed playwright's class at Harvard to achieve technique. In 1916 at the tiny Wharf Theatre in Provincetown, Mass., his first production came to life, a one-acter, Bound East for Cardiff. Henry Louis Mencken and George Jean Nathan, then editors of the rascally Smart Set, accepted three plays for publication. Critic Nathan, notorious, noisy, can always say, truthfully, he recognized the good wine of genius before the grape was ripe. He still ballyhoos O'Neill frantically...
...this is the first intercollegiate meet little is known about the University team. In the past few years the Army fencers have had one of the strongest aggregations in the East...