Word: eves
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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None of the candidates wiped his feet on the doormat of New Year's Eve, with more gusto than William G. McAdoo. The old jingle made on him four years ago still rings with startling poignancy...
...immigrant girl from a Texas farm departs to the more entertaining surroundings of the St. Louis slums. A year or two of this and she is almost done. She forces an exit, and we next see her as a successful business woman in New York. On the eve of an advantageous marriage, she is overtaken by a lurking virus of her earlier obliquity, is driven to suicide...
...small village near Zurich, Switzerland, on Christmas Eve, was held an outdoor religious service. All the inhabitants, except one old man, attended. He "has killed by an avalanche, in which 20 homes were destroyed...
...forth." He expressed satisfaction at the increase of religious faith; at the Christian spirit shown by King Alfonso of Spain on his recent visit to Rome (TIME, Dec. 3) ; and at the reports which he had received from Cardinal Logue and others that the Irish question was on the eve of a final and definite settlement...
Ever since the proverbial Eve tasted the apple, the notorious human race has been noted, for its egregious curiosity. Men in high places have suffered most from the consequences of Eve's sin. Therefore it is an ever-renewing joy when a new issue of the Congressional Directory appears, carrying the gossip which the great legislators write about themselves in their official autobiographical sketches...