Word: eves
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Final developments on the eve of adjournment...
...regime. The time was ripe for unctious smirks and fawns, for oratory, guile and treachery. The Greeks were happy. Even Admiral Hadjikiriakos, supposedly down and out as the crony in dictatorship of General Pangalos, was able to spellbind the Athenian rabble for an afternoon in Constitution Square. At eve he sought the new Dictator-with and against whom he has plotted many times-presented a petition signed by many a rabble scrawl demanding the formation of a Coalition Cabinet. This demand, already fructifying in other brains, led to a congress of chop, swap and barter between a spoil-ravenous group...
...Dispatches containing this phrase neglected to recall the crash at Croydon on Christmas Eve, 1925, when an Imperial Airways pilot and his seven passengers died instantly. *Inventor Elmer A. Sperry of the gyroscope compass and commercial gyroscope, began engineering 45 years ago as a lighting man in Chicago; has developed a searchlight for war use, of which the 1,200,000,000-candlepower beam will pick out objects 30,000 ft. high in the night heavens (TIME, March...
...Displayed a squirminess like to that of schoolboys in mid-June and an all but scandalous inattention to debate, on the eve of a three-months-long vacation, which began last week, to continue until...
...James Leffel of 39 Courtland Street, their city; Philadelphians took satisfaction from the 16 double-actioned Reber families listed in their telephone book; San Francisco was complacent with six taxpayers named Renner. . . . Children quoted out of copybooks a statement they are taught to believe was first addressed to Eve: "Madam, I'm Adam...