Word: eva
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Brown University (Providence, R. I.) U. S. Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Nathan Cardozo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D. President Franklin Winslow Johnson of Colby College (Waterville, Me.). . . LL.D. Harold Higgins Swift, Chicago packer. LL.D. Astronomer Harlow Shapley . . . . . . . . . . . Sc.D. Actress Eva Le Gallienne . . . . . . . . . . . . .Litt.D. Charles Albert Selden, London correspondent of the New York Times . . . . . M.A. Colby College (Waterville, Me.) Bainbridge Colby. Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of State. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D...
...Eva goes quietly mad. With his family crumbling about him, thick-headed Father Ardsley cheerfully congratulates one & all upon their general good fortune, believes that conditions will improve, all will be well. Very softly, Eva, a crazy gleam in her eyes, begins singing "God Save The King." Her younger sister gives her one frightened glance, rushes off to join her married suitor, thus completing the cycle of destruction...
...husband Howard who introduces the D. H. Lawrence note into the proceedings. Any and all problems confronting this burly man are promptly solved by the sex equation. Thus it is that he perceives, before anyone else, that while Sister Lois is about to get a man, Sister Eva (Fay Bainter) desperately needs one. Since her sweetheart was killed in Flanders, pinch-faced Eva has been told off to nurse her War-blinded brother and end her days in suppressed spinsterhood. Eva might have escaped her fate had not her last chance, an ex-naval officer, shot himself when his garage...
Authoress Scott likes a big canvas. In Migrations and The Wave, she filled a panoramic picture of the Civil War with hundreds of figures, a meticulously colorful background. A Calendar of Sin made No. 3 of her U. S. historical series. Eva Gay is not quite so big (only 799 pages), but its figures are few, its background so subdued that attention is glaringly focused on the three main characters. Many a wearied reader will not be attentive to the bitter...
...Eva Gay was a small-town only child, brought up in the late 19th Century tradition of fearing God, honoring her parents, seeing, doing, knowing no evil. But Eva wanted to know what it was all about, wanted to be something better than a carefully cultivated small-town girl. She dabbled in books, woman's suffrage, radicalism ; when the War gave her the chance she went to France as a nurse. Meanwhile Hans Haaska, Missouri doctor's son, was finding his painful way through priggishness to virtue. In England he was doing well in biology when his sister...