Word: eves
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fast and furious, yet quite different from an electoral campaign-there were no patriotic speeches, no florid enthusiasms for the working man and farmer. It was simply a case of two politicians each wanting the same job and appealing to their friends to rally to them. On the eve of a special Republican caucus of members of the 69th Congress, both contestants claimed the victory. Indeed, if their claims were good, both were practically elected; for the choice of the caucus, although technically only a nomination, is equivalent to election, since the next House is predominantly Republican. Such...
...this method, she puts the whole of Endymion through psychological reconstruction; explains why the Ode to a Grecian Urn is a "flawless example of clear, unvexed, wide-eyed beauty"; the Ode to a Nightingale "a no less perfect presentation of absolute magic"; why "Keats' whole soul was in The Eve of St. Agnes"; Hyperion she scores as "a failure"; praises the little-famed Meg Merrilies...
...second large smoker for the Freshman class will be held Friday evening, March 7, on the eve of the Yale Freshman hockey game. This decision was made on Saturday at a special meeting of the Dormitory Committees in Smith Halls common room. Definite plans are now being formulated for the affair which will be the big mass meeting of the winter for the class...
...ordered his "elimination." He admitted having received personally $1,000 from the Soviet Embassy in Berlin, in addition to $25,000 for the purchase of arms; and estimated the total amount disbursed by the Embassy at $200,000. He also testified that "one Lou" had introduced him to "one Eve" who had supplied him with typhoid and dysentery bacilli...
...leader of the Croatian Peasants, who favor an independent republic for Croatia, is Stefan Raditch. In the last National Assembly, the Raditch Party had 70 seats and proved itself a great nuisance to the Government. On the eve of a new general election, Premier Pashitch had Raditch and several others arrested. Subsequently, a court ordered their release; but the Government quickly found more evidence against them and had them rearrested. But this was not enough; the aged Premier, who swore to fight rather than to yield to the federative demands of his political enemies, ordered the dissolution of the Peasants...