Word: eves
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wears its flannels twelve months in the year. Just now the Riffa have got us, and promise to keep us until they have exhausted the Spanish Shawl market and the Morroco Leather Trust. To meet the popular demand Lady Fair has been ground out, and now, on the eve of its New York production it is being given the third degree at the Shubert...
...space be could have gone on with the latter indefinitely; the credit column is, he regrets, practically complete. Among the assets are found such peculiarly. American contributions to world contentment as bathrooms, the New York theatre, bobbed hair, rebellious undergraduates, one piece bathing suits, Beacon Bill on Christmas Eve, and the Marx brothers. And examination of the liabilities reveals the national crimes as including the movies, the radio, various initialed abominations--S. E. P., K. K., K. Y. M. C. A., Frank Crane, bridge, the Stock Exchange and the Stock Yards. Mr. Herbert Hoover is apparently both a credit...
Religion. On the eve of the convention, the Detroit Board of Commerce sent a letter to Detroit church members. This letter urged that invitations to labor leaders to address congregations on the Sunday of the convention be withdrawn as inimical to local industries...
...small cost, to the hungry pack on the following day malevolent visitors entered his shop and attempted to wreck the Arthur food process by melting his percolators. The robbery of yesterday morning shows the hand of the old masters, although this time they picked a mere Fish Day Eve to work their wrath...
Foremost among the factors which seemed to be putting new life in the Crimson clad outfit, was the flashy playing of Putnam who was given the quarterback assignment over Stafford on the eve of the game. Putnam used excellent judgement in handling his assortment of straight bucks, deceptive plays, and short passes, and also proved a big factor in the running strength of the Crimson quartet. Miller also played a bang up game on both offence and defense and it was after his withdrawal in the third quarter on account of injury that the efforts of the University team became...