Word: easts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brooklyn apartment. Fearful, he locked the door, pulled down the shades. Then he set to work to hack her body into smaller pieces. As he tore loose each limb, he wrapped the mess in a neat bundle; at night a policeman caught him throwing the packages into the East River...
...Maurice Sterne, came from Russia to the New York East Side where he absorbed his early art training as a bar boy on the Bowery. He is obsessed with the tragedy of the loss of the art of the ancients. It is not therefore odd that his depiction of the frontierswoman should resemble a Byzantine cowgirl, shotgun in hand, fearlessly facing whatever the gods may send. Her figure, stately as a cigar store Indian, might almost be expected to be worm-eaten, so true is it to the technique of the early Renaissance...
...fairy story of Explorer and Mrs. Douglas Burden's dragon hunt in the Dutch East Indies ended, like any good fairy story, with the death of the dragons. The Burdens took their monsters home to Manhattan safely (TIME, Sept. 20), but there they died, after several months' captivity in Bronx Zoo, unable to survive in the chill climate and on a cage diet. Last week curators of the American Museum of Natural History announced that the dead dragons were nearly ready for exhibition in the new Hall of Dinosaurs. Their eight-foot corpses were mounted...
...curious, although natural thing, that the West has always had an interest in the East, ranging from the practical ideas of traders to the romantic notions of poets. For most of us, however, the East is thought of as a new discovery; a discovery that begins with the thrilling adventures of Marco Polo. Few realize the ancient connection between China and the west; that trade between Greece and Korea throve in the first century of our era; that in 1307 Pope Clement, V. constituted Pekin an archepiscopal see in favor of a missionary Franciscan: John of Montecorvino, or that purely...
...this is by way of preface to the fact that today a student vagabond has the opportunity of hearing about the East in fairly early as well as modern times. Unfortunately, however, he must choose whether he will hear Professor Usher in Widener U on trade to the East in the sixteenth century of Professor Hornbeck in Harvard 5 on the United States war and treatles with China in the years 1844 and 1858, since both of them come at 9 o'clock...