Word: easts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Swift to send aid were the British, French and Italian governments, all of which despatched war vessels with supplies for the 10,000 Corinthians who are now homeless, shelterless. Swifter still came the succor of the American Near East Relief, which maintains agents and nurses permanently in Greece. Meanwhile rich Athenians contributed generously and rapidly to a relief fund established by Old Paul Koun-douriotis, the revered admiral who is President of Greece because he alone is trusted as a man of honor-much as Germans trust Old Paul Ludwig Hans von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg...
...hurried tramp through the snow, excited taps on the key at Point Armour, and William Barrett transmitted word that the flyers had landed safely, first to cross the Atlantic by airplane from east to west. Erwin Stuart Davis, an amateur wireless operator of Manchester, N. H., caught the message, and gave it to the Associated Press for broadcasting...
...charming and well-bred a person as Daphne there was much to despise. For Daisy was not only ashamed of her lower middle class family in East Sheen, but pretended they lived abroad, well away from inquisitive friends. Her profession too-writing heart-to-heart patter for London Sunday supplements-seemed to her so painfully vulgar that she concealed it under the name of Marjorie Wynne. Not that it wasn't good of its kind ("Career or Babies for the Post-War Girl?"), and in great demand for its popular appeal, but that was just exactly why Daisy...
...cannot consistently play the part; by Raymond's discovery of her identity with Marjorie Wynne; and, climactically, if somewhat comically, by the revelation of her lowly origin. For her mother, "betrayed" in her youth by a gentleman (Daisy-Daphne's father), rises out of her recaptured East Sheen respectability, and waddles into Raymond's parental drawing-room to inquire into the intentions of Daisy's young...