Word: eves
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Perhaps the strangest of all gifts of three night wanderers to a child born on a Christmas Eve, are the cup, the pipe, and the kiss of "The Three Wise Men", by Jean Dumaux. Perhaps the strangest of all tellings of the old story, very gently, very gravely, very beautifully! Tramps in the night, a lonely barn, a refuge, a man and "the skirt", and a new born babe! Of these the story that every one knows is told, the story that every one knows by heart and in his heart...
...legitimate functions. It may prepare sub-Freshmen for entrance, it may assist men who have fallen behind on account of sickness or some such valid reason. Conceivably it might be defended as an occasional help in time of trouble for those who, humanly if weakly, find themselves on the eve of an examination insufficiently prepared for the trial...
...eve of the big contest the Yale backfield was under oath to kick anything over the bar that wasn't imported, to send every pass out to the sidelines, and to kill all the Scotch on the field. The Harvard team swallowed hard but made no statement. It was fortunate that none was asked for, Harvard was thinking of the Old Army Game...
When she was 19 she ran away to join the cast of Reckless Eve when that masterpiece was playing in Little Rock. The Fitches had told her she could take nothing out of their house, so she left wearing two dresses, with her blouse stuffed with trinkets. Reckless Eve got as far as Tulsa where it gasped, flopped twice, and lay still. Mary Lewis gave singing lessons to the soubrets and earned enough to buy a ticket to the Coast. After her season with Christie Comedies, she got an engagement with the Greenwich Village Follies, then with Mr. Ziegfeld...
Smith Hurt on Eve of Yale Game...