Word: east
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first outward sign of what the President had done was three figures leaving a private door of the Treasury Department early in the morning. A thick grey mist enfolded them as they entered the ceremonial East Gate of the White House grounds. Walking through the rolling South Grounds, they skirted the back of the White House and entered the executive offices by a rear door used only by the President himself. It was 8:45 a. m. Secretary of the Treasury Mellon?for he was one of the three?removed his coat without aid (none of the White House staff...
Chairs in Harvard dormitories fell over. Boston citizens were alarmed. Cape Cod sea captains left their pinochle, when the severest earthquake the east had felt for many years jarred seismographs from Halifax to Manhattan. Most noticeable in Massachusetts and Nova Scotia, the brief temblor was not felt in Manhattan, everywhere did little damage...
Engaged. John Van Ryn of East Orange, N. J., 1929 Davis Cup tennis player; and Marjorie ("Midge") Gladman, seventh-ranking woman player; at Santa Monica...
...grandson of Pittsburgh's late Steelman Benjamin Franklin Jones Jr. (Jones & Laughlin Co.); and one Adelaide Ingebretsen, 20, Willock household chambermaid, lately of Norway; at Oyster Bay, L. I. They met while he was tinkering in his machine shop on his father's East Norwich, L. I., estate. Said he: "My father had a good time getting where he is, and I can have a good time with Adelaide, too." Said she: "I liked him because he was so democratic with all the servants." Willock Sr. declared he would never countenance his daughter...
...Side Up," which thanks to the engaging presence of Miss Jane Gaynor and several effective DeSylva-Brown-Henderson tunnes is Among the current Broadway successes introduces as many withouit recourse to backstage or college What pases for its plot includes episoedes at a block party in New York's East Side and a charity show at Southampton and the principals and choruses can indulge themselves in song and dance for all they are worth at both affairs...