Word: easts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan Coue held clinics, murmured, "Ca passe, ca passe!" and gathered up the dollars and discarded crutches, heard stutterers talk fluently, noted Coueism turn fad, society women form Coue clubs. Later they sponsored Mah Jong, talked of East Wind, not "Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better...
...among wealthy folk as things to do instead of merely as things to finance. William K. Vanderbilt, amateur ichthyologist, cruised the Pacific last winter and brought home strange specimens in his yacht Ara (TIME, Apr. 12). Manufacturer Jesse Metcalf (woolens) is off to collect monster lizards at Komodo, Dutch East Indies, (TIME, March 22). George Eastman (kodaks) is in Africa hunting with his cameras (TIME, March 22). Last week, Mrs. Marshall Field of Chicago, in the role of official photographer, sailed with a Field Museum expedition bound for the game-infested interior of Brazil. It was her first venture...
...classmate of Woodrow Wilson at Princeton, he remained one of the few close friends of the War President until the end. He was executive head of the United War Work and Red Cross campaigns, and a leader in educational and relief work in the Near East...
Died. Thomas F. Farrell, 60, in the wreck of the Cincinnati Limited (Pennsylvania Lines) at Blairsville, Pa.; while returning to his home in East Orange, N. J., from commencement at Notre Dame University where his son had just graduated. "It's no use, doctor, it's no use. I'm about through and you can't do me any good. Go help those other people-those women-help ..." were the last words of the dying man. He was vice president of the Pocahontis Fuel...
...house past forgetful relatives. They drove doubt from their listeners' minds by many changes of rich raiment during a banquet they straightway held, and by slitting seams of the rags they had arrived in and pouring forth heaps of jade, diamonds, rubies and other stones of the Far East. Even then they were not fully believed, and from the numbers of men and the distances they described, their audiences became known as "the court of the millions." Until just last year one of the things they related ? of a sheep with great horns ? was still regarded as semi...