Word: easts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...high plains to the south of Nairobi in British East Africa the monkeys jabbered noisily as they swung themselves from the mangrove to the coconut palm and clambered about the juniper and olive trees. The chattering stopped; curious faces peered through the leaves toward the ground where a disconsolate lion roamed through the tall grass...
...most interesting is that of the Navy, which plans to send the Los Angeles, the new dirigible that recently crossed the Atlantic, with an equipment of photographic telescopes, spectoscopes, and probably a moving picture camera, out to sea to observe the eclipse. The exact spot, about 100 miles east of Montauk Point, L. I., where the Los Angeles will be when the two minutes of totality begin has already been decided on by astronomers from the Naval Observatory. The airship will probably not be over 6000 feet up, but this will probably be enough to get above...
Died. Julianna Frances Hubbard, 95, mother of the late Elbert Hubbard, so-called "sage of East Aurora"; in Buffalo...
Charles E. Hughes, Secretary of State, deliberately rolled his mind's eye, looking westward towards the East. It encountered strange architecture, temples sloping up to Heaven like pine trees; strange garments, gentlemanly petticoats and lady-like pantaloons; strange people with yellow skins and almond eyes; strange temperaments, gifted with power of emotion and inscrutability and the capacity to live by obscure philosophies. And the westward-looker pondered how best to win the amicable regard of these strange temperaments in curious bodies...
...that moment, an Emperor of the East was lifting a distinguished gentleman of an ancient oriental family to the high rank of Ambassador, was sending him to the U. S. to cope with the problem of how the East may understand the West. The U. S. Secre- tary of State pondered, for it rested with him to make the stay of this new Ambassador in a Western country a success in point of amity-a greater success than the mission of the oriental Ambassador's predecessor, who had blundered badly by using threatening language to the Senate...