Word: easts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dandiest old colleges in the country and in that college is one of the finest societies going. It had its Tap Day on the 25th and elected, among others, "Les" Hanf, next year's football captain, and George Schutzendorf, one of the best track athletes in the East . Perhaps you've forgotten about things since you moved way out west there to Cleveland...
Counter threats. Militant "anti-Ignatz" demonstrations throughout Poland subsequently became so serious that President Moscicki was obliged to proclaim a state of emergency in Lemberg and a state of siege in Tarnopol, where rebellious Ukranians rioted and demanded the separation of East Galicia from Poland...
...press. He shows how these factors were at work since 1870 in Europe. He sketches the formation of the Triple Alliance and the Triple Entente. He goes deeper into such specific causes for unrest as Morocco, the annexation of Bosnia, Tripoli, the Bagdad Railway, Persia, the Far East, and the Balkan wars...
Precocious U. S. tots, keen students of geography, might have nonplussed their parents last week by "bounding" Great Lebanon as follows: "North, the Nahr-el-Kebir; south, the frontier of Palestine; west, the Mediterranean coast; east, the heights of anti-Lebanon." Super-tots lisped that Beirut is the seat of government; that the population was 628,863 at last reports; that cedars have given the country universal fame...
TOPPER?Thorne Smith?McBride ($2). Cosmo Topper is a Better Babbitt of the East Orange, N. J., type, early thwarted into respectability by his dyspeptic wife and his commutation ticket. The fun starts when he buys the low-hum, nickel-plated car which carried sprightly George and Marion Kerby into the next world. Passing the tree where they came to grief, Topper is joined by spiritistic versions of the Kerbys, and during the adventures that follow he comes to love them as childish prankers. The belated release of Topper is rather pathetic, but mirth is the tale's mother element...