Word: eves
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cement was being mixed, Nominee Hoover gave pink-white-and-gray James William Good implicit freedom and full control at Chicago. When Dr. Work goes to New York he feels free to issue suggestions and vetoes to Senator Moses. When he goes to Chicago, as he did on the eve of the Smith invasion, he just sits and listens to Mr. Hoover's Good...
...propose the fig leaf as your emblem, gentlemen! Honor it as the origin of your great Merchant Tailors' Federation. When the Garden of Eden crisis occurred, Eve took the only available fig leaf, and Adam had to clothe himself in heavy skins...
...present day of grace, Eve has returned to her old principle of the scant fig leaf, but Adam still clothes himself heavily and laboriously. . . I suggest more color in Adam's clothes. . . . May we live to see a scarlet morning coat worn with fig-leaf-green trousers and a canary waistcoat...
...following are current and recurrent: 1) Each New Year's Eve, John Pierpont Morgan summons his partners to No. 23 .Wall St., distributes gigantic checks as rewards for the year's work; 2) President Coolidge is kept busy answering appeals that he accept the chairmanship of the U. S. Steel Corp.; 3) Mrs. Frank O. Lowden, the onetime Miss Florence Pullman and daughter of Founder George M. Pullman, names all Pullman cars. For this labor, which reputedly occupies one half-hour each day, she earns either $100 a day or $30,000 a year...
Sunday dawned. Eve of the signing. In Canada, Germany, elsewhere, pastors thought of the French capital to which their captains and kings had departed to outlaw what has often been the business of captains and kings. In Toronto, Canon Plumptre dedicated the service of St. James's Cathedral to the signing of the treaty. Later, militaristic Author Rudyard Kipling's Recessional was sung. In Berlin, General Superintendent of Evangelical Churches Herr Doktor Martin Bibilius spoke in the same wise but made no mention of Imperialist Kipling...