Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Liberals (Canada). The Conservatives (Canada) were the fourth neighbor. They overturned the pudding-and the Laurier Cabinet-in a special election. At the end of twelve years' political vicissitudes Mr. Fielding is again Canadian Minister of Finance. The Liberal party, strong in the agricultural regions of the Canadian West, is in power, and meanwhile that section of the country has grown in voting strength. Last week he proposed to the Canadian House of Commons that "if the President of the United States, under the authority of the United States Tariff Act of 1922, determines to reduce...
Charles Young, the only Negro ever to rise to colonel's rank in the United States Army, will be buried at Arlington Amphitheatre, on May 21. This is the second time in its history that the Amphitheatre will be used for a funeral. Colonel Young graduated from West Point in 1889. He served in Indian campaigns, in the Philippines and as military attaché in Haiti and Liberia. He died at Lagos, Liberia, in January...
...Wayside Players of Scarsdale contested there?ah me!?the Riverside Players of Greenwich, the Huguenot Players of New Rochelle! From the polar heights of Great Neck came the Women's Club thereof, aesthetically accoutered to do their devoir. The Circle Players, the Temple Players, the East-West Players, the Players' League, the Stockbridge Stocks?these five arose from Manhattan, and girded their loins with batik and fine linen and came. Brooklyn, fair Brooklyn of the poets, sent forth the Adelphi Dramatic Association, the Brooklyn Institute Players, the Clark Street Players?mighty clans...
...overcame then? Who found, of a fortunate Saturday, that that night they should repeat their performances for fame and a gleaming prize? One from Manhattan?the East-West Players in The Little Stone House, by George Calderon. They of White Plains who put their trust in The Crow's Nest, by William Manly. And the Garden Players of Forest Hills in Robert Courtney's The Clock. These were the victors three, where all strove with honor...
...these the East-West Players were crowned first of all and received the Belasco trophy, given by mighty Belasco himself as acting Queen of Love and Beauty...