Word: eves
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Foolish the army which fires all its ammunition at the beginning of a battle. Wise the political party which saves up until the eve of election some important announcements, testimonials, recruits. Last week, William Gibbs McAdoo, unreconciled Wilsonian Democrat, commended the prize offered by Motor-maker William Crapo Durant for a plan to enforce Prohibition. Everyone knew, of course, that Mr. McAdoo is as dry as a cactus. The question was: did this minor McAdoodling portend a major McAdoodle, an out-and-out repudiation of the Brown Derby? Perhaps, and perhaps there are other hold-offs, more or less strategically...
Three weeks ago (TIME, Sept. 17), Jews celebrated Yom Kippur, their Day of Atonement. On the eve of Yom Kippur, in Massena. N. Y., Barbara Griffith, 4, disappeared. Her parents asked policemen to find her. At about this time, someone remembered the legend of the sacrifice. A State police trooper named H. M. McCann summoned Rabbi Berel Brennglass to headquarters where, in accordance with an arrangement previously made with Mayor W. Gilbert Hawes, he questioned the rabbi as follows...
...British Conservative Party expects to win again by telling John Bull and his women that the Labor Party (Socialist) is a pack of "Reds." In 1924 the "Red" stigma was fastened upon Labor Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, when the Conservatives released the notorious "Zinoviev Letter" on election eve. The "Letter" purported to show that Labor Leaders were receiving pay and orders from "Moscow." Today, after four years of pointing at the Red Bogey Man, the Conservatives and "Stability" Baldwin apparently believe that they can strike the old attitude again...
...Eve did not clothe herself in "the only available fig leaf." There were plenty. For (Genesis III, 7) "they [Adam and Eve] sewed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons...
Adam was apparently quite as satisfied with his scanty apron as Eve; but the Lord God was not. Therefore (Genesis III, 21) "unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins and clothed them...