Word: eves
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eve of the successful conclusion of negotiations for a loan to Hungary under the auspices of the League of Nations, the crown descended from about 20,000 to the dollar to 140,000 and was temporarily stabilized at about...
...Fifth Avenue Church before 300 members of the Presbytery, adding that he had directly communicated with God on six other occasions. Then, with the voice of a prophet, he said: "The Holy Ghost is about to descend upon New York. The church in this city is on the eve of a second Pentecost. The Pentecost will be made by the spirit of God out of the differences of race, background and intellect that exist here. I feel that the spirit of God is at work this moment on the new Pentecost...
...eve of his nomination Mr. Pointer exclaimed: "It will be the proudest moment of my life if I am nominated by this convention. ... I received assurances only last Saturday that Lowden [ex-Governor of Illinois] will be square behind me if I am nominated...
More entertaining than the fight were the comments of W. O. McGeehan, sporting editor of The New York Herald, on events of the preceding eve- ning. According to McGeehan, Siki strolled into the Baltimore Hotel, Memphis, where Norfolk was sitting with a black girl. Siki advanced to pay his respects. Unhappily, Norfolk, ignorant of French, assumed insult. He stared at Siki with all the enthusiasm of the cold and clammy blackness of a coal mine. Siki started fighting on the spot. McGeehan deplored Siki's amateur attitude in this unbusinesslike proceeding. Said he: "If Siki goes around the country...
...bookkeeper at the plant --the heart and soul of Cranetown. Horace, the eldest son, has married and is doing well in the export department, while studying psychology by mail. Dolores, his wife and her mother-in-law's echo, is learning to cook. His brother Gordon is on the eve of realizing his ambition: a Phi Beta Kappa Key at the Mid-State University and a job in the teller's cage at the Cranetown National Bank. Ma Actopel, a sacrificing wife who has seen hard times, now has hopes of ironing out her troubles. There even seems...