Word: easts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Official White House Spokesman did not mention it last week, but doubtless the President and Mrs. Coolidge heard about it-the conversation of His Majesty T. Goesti Bagoes Djelantik, Rajah of Karang Asem on the Island of Bali in the Dutch East Indies, and one Joseph Patterson, stock broker and writer, who returned home last week and got into the headlines with this piquant chitchat: The Rajah: "Where did you come from?" Mr. Patterson: "From America." The Rajah: "Is that further away than Singapore?" Mr. Patterson: "Much further." The Rajah, producing a newspaper photograph of President Coolidge and Queen Marie...
...fortunate men, culled in the circuit through the leading educational centers of the East, will be provided free transportation to and from the Burbank studios for an eight weeks' trial in productions starring Colleen Moore, Richard Barthelmess, Milton Sills, Billie Dove, and others. Those still more fortunate men who are retained after these tests will be offered long term contracts...
Following a month of delays and postponements the appeal of the ten Harvard students convicted in the Harvard Square "riot" will be heard in the East Cambridge Superior Court immediately after the spring vacation. The exact day has not yet been set, but Stoughton Bell '98, counsel for the defense, announced yesterday after a conference with R. T. Rushnell '14, prosecuting attorney; that the first part of the week of April 24 would see the opening of the trial...
...Phillips Brooks House drive for clothes opens today when over one hundred undergraduates will start collecting in all of the dormitories. This is a semi-annual drive and the clothes which are collected go to every part of the world to clothe the poor. The Near East is one of the special centers and in past years a great number of garments have been distributed among the Armenians...
...competent writer, might have been worthy of the excellent title, but the author of this novel has bungled it. A discouraged ex-service man tries sheepraising on the Bad Lands of the West, and fails; as he is on the point of suicide, he meets a stray from the East, a shop-girl from Newark, who has been induced by a lady real estate agent to come to a boom town which has failed to boom. What could be more natural than that the hero should take this waif to his ranch, on the theory that two can starve...