Word: eves
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Noel Marie Joseph Edouard, Marquis de Curieres de Castelnau, was born on Christmas Eve, 1851, the year of Louis Napoleon's coup d'etat. He was taught to be a good Catholic by the Jesuits and in the 18th year of his life entered the military academy...
More things are wrought by women than this world dreams of. From abolition down to prohibition many of the great American reforms have been effected in very large part by Eve's daughters, often using non-political instruments. The pen of Harriet Beecher Stowe, the hatchet of Carried Nation, the tongue of Mr. Carrie Chapman Catt--who can estimate the efficacy of these weapons of reform...
...Presidential Secretary Slemp, on the eve of retirement and a two weeks' vacation in the South, bade farewell to White House correspondents. Said...
...Masterpieces of Egyptian Art" is the subject for a talk which will be given in the Fogg Art Museum on January 28 by Professor Jean Topart of the University of Liege. Coming as it does on the eve of the examination in Fine Arts 1c, the course on Ancient art, it is likely that many members of the course will take advantage of this coincidence as a means to prepare for the exams...
Major Daly was once a Harvard captain. He was appointed to West Point on the eve of the Yale game. He graduated. He served for a time in the Army and eventually resigned. A special act of Congress got him back after he had found civil life uncongenial. His principal duty since restoration to the officers' list has been as coach of the West Point eleven. Recently he was ordered to duty with troops. Now Harvard needs him. Harvard gets...