Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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HAZEL ERNEST WEST...
...Nodded approval as the Ministry of Health suppressed the Municipal Guardians of West Ham, famed constituency of John Joseph ("Jumping Jack") Jones, Laborite M. P., raucous boor. The Guardians of West Ham, ardent Laborites, had been paying "unemployment doles" to able-bodied men on a scale higher than their wages when employed. As a result the community is reported in debt...
Bounding Japanese hooligans leaped high. They swarmed up the pillars of the gubernatorial residence at Nagano, 100 miles west of Tokio. They seized His Excellency the Governor (one Umetani), bent him over the rail of his own balcony, paddled...
Yellow fever, scourge of Panama, no longer is endemic in the Americas, though last April there was an outbreak in northern Brazil. The Board sent Dr. Henry Beeuwkes, its yellow fever director, to Nigeria, West Africa, to experiment along the Gold Coast...
...West New York, N. J., one Paul Bethamen, weaver, husband, father, awoke in a room he had never seen before. It had bars. It was a prison cell...