Word: easts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...result of the War, the people of the Near East were left in a condition of poverty which it is hard to realize in this country. Huge numbers of the inhabitants of Asia Minor, Syria, and the Caucasus were left homeless and without means of support or sustenance due to the destruction wreaked upon the country by the coming and going or armies and the devastation of guerilla warfare...
...outcome of the Druse warfare which took place in Syria last year, during which parts of Damascus were bombed and laid in ruins, and villages in the Lebanon Mountains were destroyed, many of the orphans who had been placed with relatives by the efforts of the Near East Relief were made homeless. And now the city of Beirut is filled with refugees chiefly women and children, penniless and without any means of support or protection, who have only the rags they are wearing to shield them from the chill Syrian winter and the burning desert sun of summer...
Winter in the Caucasus is severe, almost Arctic. The snow covers the ground to a depth of ten feet or more while for the thermometer to register 25 degrees below zero is not the exception but the rule. Under these conditions the refugees of the Near East can live only if, through the charity of peoples more fortunate than they, they obtain clothing to protect them from the elements...
...refugees. It is in behalf of these people that the Phillips Brooks House Association will conduct its drive to obtain from students in the University, the cast-off clothes which they will no longer use, but which will be most helpful to the refugees of the Near East...
...West of the Mississippi with its great side-wheelers and niggers and roustabouts and plenitude of suckers has produced its own school of chroniclers. By the works of its sons do we know it. And faro and monte are not unknown mysteries even in the modern and effete east; we have met the southern planter and the river boat gambler before, and still do we, their unworthy descendants, endeavor to fill on kings or bluff a bobtailed flush...