Word: eves
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ADAM & EVE-John Erskine-Bobbs-Merrill ($2.50). The simplicity of Author Erskine's formula is so evident that definition is unnecessary. What escapes definition is this: why should talk that would be only mildly witty coming from the mouths of imaginary characters be continuously entertaining when imagined as spouting from mythical Helen of Troy, legendary Galahad or biblical Eve? Here is the triangle of Eve, Lilith, and poor old Adam, who gets tossed up and down in the web of their attractions like a fresh-man in a blanket. First Lilith gets him, then Eve, then Lilith, then Eve...
...after the war. In 1923 Yale finally broke the spell with a 13 to 0 victory, scoring the only touchdown which the Bulldog has pushed across in the Stadium since 1907. Two victories and a tie since that lone touchdown indicate that the Blue may be on the eve of a football resurrection to avenge her dearth of victories for 19 years...
Sheldon Clark, Chicago sportsman, another Sinclair vice president, who had left Washington on the eve of the jury-tampering charges, turned up at home, protested his innocence, said he would return to Washington...
...servant John Hobbs speak his name in a respectful whisper through the corridors of a big mansion. In Hessian boots and quest of youth, he ventures over the blood-and-thunderous landscape on which he finds, among other adventures, his wife who had left him 20 years before and Eve-Ann Ash, the girl he kisses on the last page. This is after Jasper Shrig, detective, has made sure that Fiddling Jackie, not Sir Marmaduke, murdered the disagreeable Squire Brandish; after Mrs. Marmaduke has died; after Author Farnol has once more made readers, of whom there will be many, pant...
Although the starting line-up for the Penn game Saturday has not yet been definiteely picked, indications on the eve of the squad's departure for Philadelphia point to the substitution of R. A. Stewart '30 for John Parkinson '29 as the only change likely in the Team A combination which has been working together this week...