Word: easts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Spokesmen Hughes and Borah were somewhat impeded in the East, towards the finish, by the popular impetus of Governor Smith's homeland campaigning and by the alertness of the Brown Derby's ablest assistant, the New York World. Editorial Writer Walter Lippmann and Governor Smith managed to draw both the Messrs. Hughes and Borah into side-arguments and self-explanations. Mr. Hughes was nettled to such an extent that he talked about "mudslingers," wisecrack artists" and "calumny...
...thought he had what he wanted when he laid hands on a letter from Senator Moses, sharp-spoken, rough-and-ready Hooverizer of the East, to one Zeb Vance Walser. Mr. Walser is a G. O. P. worker in Lexington, N. C. The letter got misdirected to Lexington, Ky. In it, Senator Moses said he was enclosing an article by a South Carolina journalist in New York. "It is red hot stuff," said Senator Moses, "and I wish you could get it put into some North Carolina papers...
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Last week a silver arrow darted suddenly from the East (Roosevelt Field, L. I.), not over 500 feet from the ground, curved gracefully around Mines Field, Los Angeles, settled gently upon the turf. The thing that over 150 patient watchers had been awaiting, trembling with mingled anticipation and dread, had happened. The weary, perilous miles from coast to coast had been covered in 24 hours and 51 minutes. This was 2 hours faster than it had ever been done before...
...English high ways from Windsor Castle past Slough, Wexham, Heath, Ruislip. Wembley, to a stadium 26 miles and 480 yards from the start. Marathon races were well-patronized then; the greatest of runners was Dorando, a confectioner from the island of Capri. Hayes was 22, the son of an East Side Manhattan Irish baker; he was 5 ft. 3 ¾ in. tall and his number was 26. One hot. windless day. late in July, a gun was fired, and the runners strung out along the road, jogging slowly in the haze of early afternoon...