Word: eves
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...become a lobbyist. As such, his activities are being carried on at the breakfast table of the White House, where his power ful and penetrating propaganda is being delivered to Members of the Congress who have been previously feasted on buckwheat cakes saturated with New England maple syrup. "Since Eve was tempted by the serpent with the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden, never has there been offered to weak and erring humanity such an irresistible temptation as buck wheat cakes and syrup, sweeter than the honey of the Hybla bee. "The seriousness of my charge against the President...
...Anglo -Russian Conference* which has been carried on behind the secretive walls of the British Foreign Office was said to be "on the eve of collapse...
Between Friends. A rather machine-made story of artists' life, in which Lou Tellegen is represented as hypnotizing a "friend" (who stole his wife) to commit suicide on Christmas eve, and then hypnotizing him out of it, by sheer power of the Tellegen will and smoldering eyes. A high spot is a Greenwich Village ball, in which great fun prevails when one of the revelers spanks the others with a waiter's tray...
...overwhelming defeat of the University may be called a decided track upset. On the eve of the contest, the two teams had seemed of very nearly equal strength. It was conceded that Princeton had a slight scoring advantage, but Harvard was allowed better than an outside chance to gather together the 68 points necessary to win the meet. Consequently, the tigers overwhelming, two-to-one victory was distinctly upsetting to all predictions...
...return to America he became interested in the Theatre? particularly in the work of Maude Adams. He was for years her stage manager. It was in the Theatre that he met John D. Williams, director of Rain. He staged many of his plays (particularly Justice and All Souls Eve). This association continued until the outbreak...