Word: eves
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During his illness, he repeatedly asked for his favorite newspaper; but the doctors, fearing to let him see the unfavorable bulletins which they had issued, did not accede to his demand. Finally, on the eve of his death, a morning newspaper* consented to halt its presses and print a single copy of a special edition, called by the British press "the bedside edition," wherein was described his "great improvement" and the certainty of his early convalescence?but all in vain; the "bedside edition" was hardly wet with its ink before Lord Curzon had expired. It was a considerate and sporting...
Leading to this last act were two of the conventional settings in which the wicked and black-browed millionaire was murdered on the eve of his wedding. Of the dozen or two people in the play, nearly every one was suspected at one time or another; but the burden of suspicion fell on a discarded mistress, her two sons, a Kaffir servant and a stout Irishwoman included in the name of comedy. All these and the others were collected in the final scene before the District Attorney, who proceeded to carve out the culprit in time for an eleven...
Sargent was clearly approved for lack of enemies in Washington. Until after breakfast last Tuesday morning, just two Senators had eve herd his name; yet before dinner, a majority of that body, had officially pronounced him qualified to occupy this powerful position in the Cabinet. A study of his record would have revealed three significant attainments. He has some local reputation as a corporation and criminal lawyer; he is one of the reactionary "bosses" of his state; and his acquaintance with "Colonel" John Coolidge dates from boyhood. Interesting attainments these are, but hardly adequate preparation for the legal representative...
...member of the crew squad while in college, after graduating he took part in crew affairs and at one time was an assistant coach. He also coached the Freshman crew. In football as well, he often took a prominent part in rallies. Many will recall his speech on the eve of the Yale game last fall...
...eve of the Revolution of the General Court of Massachusetts, protesting against the quartering of soldiers in Boston, was "rusticated" to Cambridge where the House held forth in Holden Chapel during the last years of its service under the British flag. Then the war came and Harvard was in the very midst of it. Holden became a barracks, housing no less than 160 men. When the soldiers left the chapel was little better than a ruin...