Word: easts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...East Room of the White House shimmered and twinkled with bright uniforms, emblems, medals, pomade. Two thousand were present. When it was over, Mrs. Coolidge leaned on the arm of the President, said farewell to scores of the guests. Thus, with a state reception in honor of the Army & Navy, ended the social program of the Coolidge administration...
Meyers Wilson ("K. O.") Christner, a little stolid and very solid, had knocked out 37 fisticuffers in 44 bouts. But he was almost unheard of east of Akron, Ohio, and west of the Mississippi River, until he demolished Knute Hansen and was signed up to fight Josef Paul Cukoschay ("Jack Sharkey") in Madison Square Garden last week...
...University basketball team, after two weeks of inactivity, resumed practice last night. The first game, with Holy Cross on the Hemenway floor, is scheduled for February 6. Holy Cross has one of the strongest teams in the East this year. It is practically a veteran team, having lost only one man, Captain Reilly, who graduated last year. In their last game, Holy Cross defeated Brown...
...front of the ancient desk in the East Room of the White House stood a restless group of photographers in a little forest of tripods. Behind the desk stood a group of Senators, Cabinet Members, State Department officials. At the desk, of course, sat President Coolidge, in frock coat and wing collar. On his right sat Vice President Dawes, on his left, Secretary of State Kellogg, behind his chair stood Idaho's square-faced Borah and Virginia's militant Swanson. All eyes turned toward the green morocco case resting on the desk. It contained the Kellogg-Briand Peace...
...rather than to its political leaders for truly constructive criticism. Wilson became famous as the head of a large university. More recently President Butler of Columbia has been continually active in the affairs of his party, and his utterances and writings have had much influence among Republicans in the East. President Aydelotte of Swarthmore not only runs a coeducational college and supervises the Rhodes Scholar selections, but is active in the cause of world peace. Here in Massachusetts when the Governor desired an impartial committee to review the Sacco-Vanzetti case, two of the three men chosen were the heads...