Word: easts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Writer, editor, authority on the Far East, Eleanor Franklin Egan died last week in Manhattan. She began writing at 18 as a correspondent for 'Leslie's Weekly during the Russo-Japanese War. In Japan, she was married to Martin Egan who then represented the Associated Press. Later, they edited together the Manila Times. During the War, Mrs. Egan wrote many articles from the Mesopotamia front. She was one of four women on the American delegation at the Limitation of Armaments Conference. Of late, she has contributed a series of articles on the Orient to The Saturday Evening Post...
...Eugene O'Brien, Ben Alexander, Mae Busch and several other expensive luxuries in casting this picture. The investment seems to have been sound. Without their able acting, the old Western story would have wabbled. It tells of an open-spaces girl married to a creaky drunkard from the East, how he gambled away his character and her fortune and how the burly, silent hero suddenly stepped in from the side lines. The genuine and inventive talents of Miss Busch, in particular, were highly helpful...
Died. Eleanor Franklin Egan, authority on the problems of the Far East; in Manhattan. (See Page...
Look quickly towards the west. Rushing from the horizon the shadow passes from west to east at a speed of two thousand miles an hour...
Colonel Kilbourne then took up a detailed discussion of the strategic power of the geographical situation of the United States, particularly with reference to the Panama Canal. He dismissed completely the possibility of an attack from the east, showing that our control of the Caribbean is so complete that it would be "military suicide" for any other national to attempt to attack the canal from that side...