Word: westwards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Charles E. Hughes, Secretary of State, deliberately rolled his mind's eye, looking westward towards the East. It encountered strange architecture, temples sloping up to Heaven like pine trees; strange garments, gentlemanly petticoats and lady-like pantaloons; strange people with yellow skins and almond eyes; strange temperaments, gifted with power of emotion and inscrutability and the capacity to live by obscure philosophies. And the westward-looker pondered how best to win the amicable regard of these strange temperaments in curious bodies...
Hardly a full day out from Cherbourg, churning her white wake westward into the seas of the leviathans, steamed the only Leviathan remaining. Her skipper, Captain Hartley, leaning into the wind upon the bridge, had had his last night's sleep within his bunk for he did not know how long. Into a towering gale, momentarily increasing, swept the vessel. Great seas pounded her. Within her thin steel walls reposed a freight of notables. David Warfield, the actor, returning from sojourn abroad; Julius Fleischmann, the yeast millionaire, turned racehorse breeder in his postmarital retirement; two baseball teams, the White...
Production of cotton is more and more moving westward into the southwest; already Texas is overwhelmingly the leading cotton-producing state. Chicago brokers claim that the cotton market should accordingly move westward to Chicago. Yet the Chicago, like the New York, cotton market will presumably handle little actual cotton, and be primarily a "hedging" market in cotton contracts. Under these circumstances, nearness to the cotton fields is of minor importance...
...time their fellows set out. They were in Paris in the wee, small hours; in Saigon (French Indo-China) in the morning;" in San Francisco at sunset; and also at Long Island in the evening. The evening of departure and arrival was the same. The three circumnavigators who went westward were back in six seconds. The three circumnavigators who went eastward were back in five seconds. They were three SSS's and three CCC's sent out by radio telegraph, racing around the World in relays. Really their time was poor-most of it being taken...
Then came the final, fatal trip, the journey of President and Mrs. Harding westward across the Continent, leaving the White House in the process of renovation?not knowing that the mansion was being made ready for a new tenant. As Elbert H. Gary gave word that the steel mills were going to give up their 12-hour day, as Edward W. Bok offered a prize of $100,000 for a practical peace plan and announced a committee in charge of the award, including as a member one John W. Davis, quondam Ambassador to the Court of St. James?speeding west...