Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Governor Ritchie's words did not go unattacked. Governess Ross of Wyoming, Governor Trinkle of Virginia, Governor Whitfield of Mississippi protested, saying highways were the concern of the nation as a whole, that the East got much of its taxable wealth from the West...
...Texas Trail. Harry Carey has been making Western thrillers for years and years and even longer. They are one of the few types of plot that, to the jaded taste of this department, stand repetition. In this one, she goes West looking for cinema cowboys and finds...
...little Luther Memorial Church, in West Philadelphia, has a faithful pastor, one Julius F. Seebach. This summer, the Rev. Mr. Seebach took a much-needed holiday in Europe. No other preacher was engaged. Instead, Mrs. Julius Seebach, long rumored to have been the author of her husband's eloquent sermons, took the pulpit. Irritated female parishioners filed a protest with the Rev. Frederick H. Knubel, President of the United Lutheran Church...
...same time as the N.E.A., the American Classical League reiterated its belief that the boys and girls of nowadays should bury their noses in Greek and Latin. In the final third of a long report on conditions at home and abroad (TIME, Oct. 6), Dean Andrew Fleming West of the Princeton Graduate College, made it known that England, France and Germany have all resuscitated the classics (especially Latin) from the ill-effects of wartime. The League reelected Dean West as its President...
SEDUCERS IN ECUADOR-V. Sackville-West-Doran ($1.50). With adroit indirection, the author acquaints you with the sad end, on the scaffold, of Arthur Lomax. The colored glasses he bought in Egypt so marvelously altered the aspect of life that he married Miss Whitaker, murdered his yachtsman host, Bellamy, and left Bellamy's money to Artivale, the scientist of the cruise-all with the loftiest of motives. In court, bereft of the illusive spectacles, normal Arthur Lomax could quite understand the jury's incredulity. His was the tragedy of the man who made believe and had his dream...