Word: easts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Utterly overwhelmed and outmanned were the Freshmen, who bowed before Deerfield 11-0 on Saturday. Known as one of the very best combines in the East, the Deerfield team was continually refreshed by batches of reserves, whereas the Yardlings had only some six spares...
...apparent turn for the better. A "deal" was reported in the making, whereby Poland would voluntarily give Danzig to Germany. The Germans were said, in any case, to be planning no invasion of Danzig across Polish soil: to save Poland's face, the invasion would come from adjoining East Prussia...
Wright moved East, wrote books and criticism, grew a beard, affected a monocle. He went to work for The Smart Set, a sort of pretentious pulp, became its editor and transformed it into what Critic Burton Rascoe called "the most memorable, the most audacious, the best edited, and the best remembered of any magazine ever published on this continent...
...Hasty Pudding and Pi Eta Club shows are the parlor of Harvard dramatic entertainment, the various House plays are certainly the kitchen sink. In comparison, the House plays are poorly mounted, poorly drilled, and poorly east. But therein lies their beauty, the appeal of the dramatic ugly duckling. Somehow the joy of knowing the actors personally, and of watching them blow their lines makes for entertainment which a more professional show cannot offer...
...with Lima. At 61 he is portly, neat, given to anecdote (Sally Rand's bubble once burst and landed in his lap; he swears "it wasn't my cigar that broke it"). An engineer who tinkers in his own machine shop in the cellar of his East Orange, N. J. home, he is also a good salesman, a rabid Republican. His chief irritation is that the view from his Manhattan window includes a large picture of Franklin Roosevelt on a desk across...