Word: westwards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Came a bright September evening and the Warrior sprang from the defense into militant campaigning. In a new brown derby, with Mrs. Smith on his arm, he boarded an elaborate eleven-car special train at Albany. As it sped westward, a big red bull's-eye sign on the back platform announced: "Smith-Robinson Special−the Victory Ticket...
...voice now crosses the Atlantic eastward by radio from Rocky Pt., L. I. (or Deal, N. J.); is received at the radio station at Cupar, Scotland; then goes by wire to London; from there to any of the "opened" cities and countries of Europe. Westward from Europe, the answering voice is sent by radio from Rugby, England; received in Houlton, Maine (or Netcong, N. J.), then goes by wire to Manhattan; from there anywhere in the U. S. or Canada...
Capt. Sir James Charles, 33-year veteran and Commodore of the Cunard fleet, brought the flagship Aquitania through a bitter gale, "one of the worst ever," on his last westward passage. A graduate of the wind-jammers, he has crossed the North Atlantic 726 times, covered 2,323,200 nautical miles. Much-respected, much-loved, burly Capt. Sir James retires to grow cabbages...
Bulletins continued to conflict as to just when the Beaver Man would start westward to bow from train platforms, see the President, have his triumph at Palo Alto, accept the nomination...
...Greek King Constantine was brother-in-law to All Highest Kaiser Wilhelm. At the Peace Conference it was in large measure due to the peculiar, enticing charm of M. Venizelos that the Allies were persuaded to increase the territory of Greece by 3,200 miles and extend her frontier westward to within 20 miles of Constantinople. Such a man is most potentially dangerous when he seems to be doing nothing of importance. Therefore, few Greeks were really surprised, last week, when Eleutherios Venizelos journeyed from Crete to Athens and announced with quiet firmness: "I am compelled to recall the statement...