Word: eves
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. John MacLennan, 64, uncle of Sir Harry Lauder, famed Scottish song-and-danceman; at Worcester, Mass.; suddenly, on the eve of his nephew's appearance there...
When Canberra became live news last week on the eve of its emergence as a great capital, many a sterling U. S. citizen felt acute shame at ignorance of almost everything about Australia except its rank as a British Dominion and its position in the Southern Hemisphere...
...ignored her to her distress. For his dessert, he judiciously chose a ripe red apple, peeled it and halved it with care. On the charming lady's plate he set one half. "Why?" she smiled innocently back at him. "You must eat it," he admonished her, "for when Eve ate the apple she knew she was naked and felt ashamed...
...white men and women in the Occidental Quarter of Shanghai were protected by 20,000 troops, mostly British. They scarcely knew or cared who captured the Chinese Quarter. On the very eve of this "great victory" a correspondent cabled from Shanghai...
Pieces typical of Brancusi's work are his "Eve," which might be mistaken for an Afric religious symbol or a representation of a huge mushroom which has been neatly clipped by a lawnmower; his "Golden Bird," which resembles an immature onion; his "Penguins," which looks like a badly constructed snowman; his "Study of Mlle. Pogany," which resembles nothing so much as drip pings from a glassblower's tube...