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Word: eves (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...elsewhere than at Childs. Other stockholders complained of "stores fitted out like palaces" unable to draw trade; lack of display of the Childs' name; "water should be served with meals as in the past;" "Childs should advertise;" Childs' prices were too high; the New Year's Eve (1928) $1 minimum check "did the company more harm than good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Going Vegetable-wise | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

EDEN-Murray Sheehan-Dutton ($2). "When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?" The gentleman was Author Murray Sheehan who, so intimately has he delved into the domestic relations of the primates, must certainly have been there. This book, although it lacks the lightness of famed John Erskine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: And Pinch Me! | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

...pointed out editorially: "Will Hays . . . grossly and flagrantly deceived the Walsh investigating committee . . . on the eve of the Coolidge campaign. There can, then, be no assurance that Hays is not deceiving the Walsh committee now, on the eve of the 1928 campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: Politic Oil | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

...That John Erskine, professor (English Literature, Columbia University), author ( The Private Life of Helen of Troy, Galahad, Adam and Eve), pianist, has been elected president of the Juilliard School of Music, hitherto governed by committee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Do-Re-Mi | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

...conveyed 500 miles by motor caravan from the Red Sea town of Jidda in the Hejaz, to the Sultan's inland capital, Riyadh, in Nejd. There was it made known that the enlightened son & Viceroy had finally caused to be obliterated that notorious imposture, "The Tomb of Mother Eve," at Jidda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARABIA: Tomb of Eve | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

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