Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these dismal prospects is for scholars of the subject to ascertain. But a bit of recent news from Asia suggests that the armor of the east rings a bit hollow, that Mongolia and Siberia will receive the land hungry Japanese before there will be forced upon an unwilling west. This news is the information of a newspaper correspondent who has interviewed a number of prominent Japanese and finds them pervaded with pessimism...
...Little Phil" Sheridan was born in Albany, N. Y. He had been graduated from West Point, had served in the Far West, had been a Quartermaster Captain in the Civil War, a Cavalry Colonel, had stormed Missionary Ridge, had fought with Jeb Stuart in the battle in which the latter was killed, had beaten General Early in the Shenandoah Valley, had had his famous 20 miles to Cedar Creek to turn defeat to victory, had been at Appomattox Court House, had commanded in the Southwest after the war, had fought the Indians, had gone to Germany and observed...
...Court was informed that Herr Schwarz' occupation was that of a cinema director specializing in "Wild West" productions. He had been arraigned upon charges preferred by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals...
Aloma of the South Seas. Gilda Gray, graduate of barroom dance halls of the Middle West, has made her first picture. She has taken a grass-skirt story of a native girl in love with a visiting American. After various struggles with his girl from America and Aloma's coffee-colored lover, it turns out, miraculously, that she is really a white girl after all. Miss Gray, while no Bernhardt, holds up her end of the acting capably enough. She also shimmies boldly and with emphasis. That, after all, is her life work and the thing she seems...
...paradise of the world. He knows from personal acquaintance the cave-birds of Trinidad; the crocodiles of Florida and Venezuela; the elephants of Africa and India; the musk ox and his ugly tropical cousin, the water buffalo, which stalks humans. He has collected turtles and their eggs at Key West and mountain goat photographs and horns in the Shoshones. One of the most readable chapters he ever wrote is called "Game-Eating Adventures," beginning with the hump-backed whale luncheon given by Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn and Explorer Roy Chapman Andrews at the American Museum of Natural History (Manhattan...