Word: easts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this country to paint tenements. He studied art in Poland and manifested an interesting talent for painting. He left Poland because of poverty and religious oppression. When he arrived in this country he wanted to be a painter. He expressed the idea to some immigrant friends on the East Side, who thought he meant that he wanted to be a house painter. He was referred to a job and when he got there he discovered that it was a job painting a tenement house. Handicapped by lack of funds and little knowledge of English, he was compelled to do this...
Under the heading "Anything to Beat Yale," the article continues: "The proposed seating capacity for the new field will make it the largest in the East. Yale will no longer have the edge in this regard...
...Richard Washburn Child, Mr. and Mrs. John Hays Hammond, President and Mrs. James R. Angell of Yale, Mr. Frank A. Munsey, Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Stearns, Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Sabin, Mrs. Edward B. McLean and others to the number of 50. After dinner in the East Room, Madame Schumann-Heink and Mischa Elman furnished music...
...little Armenian girls in Syria spent ten months tying 4,404,247,000 knots depicting an even gross of animals, and completed a rug for Calvin Coolidge's Christmas. He wrote to the Vice Chairman of the Near East Relief, Dr. John H. Finley...
...beginning of a general movement in the undergraduate world, which is bound to have its effect maybe not within a year or five years but eventually. One reason which leads us to this conclusion is the fact that the movement already has been introduced in many institutions of the East, and is even under discussion in preparatory schools...