Word: east
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...East room a sober public Christmas tree, adorned with a scene of the Nativity, was set up while a family tree upstairs was decked with tinsel, colored lights. Mrs. Hoover had bookstores searched for travel and mystery books, the President's favorites. From all over U.S. poured in gifts for the President, mostly neckties and wristwatches. Fifty children of Cabinet members and other officials were invited to a special White House Christmas party...
From a short-circuited subway train under the East River, 800 passengers stampeded, trampling 89 of themselves but killing none...
...There it may be found this week that Rosario, Argentina, will buy buggy wheels; that Nottingham, England, wants battery chargers; Lagos, Nigeria, needs canned fish and lump sugar. Other world wants noted in the latest bulletins: kitchen sinks at Bordeaux; machines to make banana flour at Lourengo Marquez. Portuguese East Africa; fertilizer grinders at Batavia; sneakers and sporting wear at Mukden; fountain pens at Calcutta; corsets at Berlin; oilcloth at Cairo...
...should be playing Carnegie Tech. In spite of the West Coast records, which are too complicated to indicate much, Southern California is rightly considered one of the best, if not the best, team in its district. Carnegie Tech was by no means one of the best teams in the East. In spite of Coach Howard Jones' routine diatribes against self-confidence, his Trojans felt that the game was a warm up for New Year's Day and a Pittsburgh team that had beaten Carnegie Tech...
Bankrupt. The Provincetown Players, discoverers in 1916 of Playwright Eugene O'Neill, when they gave his Bound East for Cardiff in a shack on a wharf in Provincetown, Mass. This winter they moved up from their small Greenwich Village theatre to Broadway. Subscribers' pledges of some $60,000 were not met. Suspected reason: "The stockmarket...