Word: easts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Starting from Oakland, Calif., for the first West-East non-stop continental flight, Colonel Art Goebel last week reached New York, 18 hours, 58 minutes later. Last August, he won the Dole prize for flight to Hawaii...
When Baron Ehrenfried Guenther von Huenefeld, Capt. Hermann Koehl and Maj. James G. Fitzmaurice arrived in Manhattan after their east-west trans-Atlantic flight (TIME, May 7) they received a noisy, elaborate burst of greeting. Touched by this fanfare, impartially accorded by the U.S. to a two-thirds Germanic achievement, they donated the propeller of their monoplane Bremen to the projected Museum of the City of New York...
Tilden was not invited to participate in the East-West matches. Fretted, Friend Hunter refused to play, said a Tildenless tournament was "not representative." Said P. Schuyler Van Bloem, vice president of the Eastern Lawn Tennis Association: "It would be unsportsmanlike to use a player against whom charges are pending." Thus the player-writer rule rapped the fingers of Tilden. Ready commentators said Tilden will play no more tennis, will go into vaudeville. The first prediction was wrong; Tilden accepted the bid to play in the Newport Casino tournament, on whose cup he has two legs. The other prediction...
Tilden-less, Hunter-less, the East lost to the West, six matches to three. Tildenizens gloated...
...Scott Moncrieff, translator of difficult Marcel Proust. And such a one is Arthur Waley, translator of exquisite Chinese poetry and of the monumental Japanese novel by Lady Murasaki. Translator Waley learned both Japanese and the still more difficult Chinese from native teachers in London. He has never been east of Suez, and yet he is a recognized authority on literature and art of the Far East. By profession Assistant in the Oriental Section of the British Museum Print Room, his favorite diversion is the poetry of Chinese Po Chui...