Word: eves
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...extreme if elegant debauchery and committed crimes too numerous to note. But in spite of all that, he maintained the romantic faith of a child in beauty and holiness?the beauty of Melior, of Acaire?the holiness of Holy St. Hoprig, his patron in Heaven. And then, on the eve of his fifth marriage, he encountered Janicot, a sedate and uncanny personage with curious feet and many damnable names...
...inherited the confectioner's shop across the way, was an odd but happy linking together of two penny-pinching temperaments. The grand passion of Henry's life was for solid cash ? a passion so strong it attained the proportions of self-sacrificing heroism. When he discovered on the eve of his marriage that Violet had actually been paying their mutual charwoman, Elsie, less than he, he glowed to think what a wonderful wife he was getting. So he wedded her with a nine-caret ring and Elsie stayed on to work harder than ever at even smaller wages...
...thus and so. In the midst of this fluttering and chittering, I sought out the lovely old frame house where Ellen Glasgow lives. She was, it seemed, in New York City. So presently, having come back home again to New York City, I found Miss Glasgow on the eve of returning to Richmond. But I found...
TARNISH-Convincing reversal of the original concept that Eve is to blame...
...Week's program of the San Carlo Opera Company at the Opera House is as follows: Monday Caruera Tuesday Rigoletto Wed. Mat. Hansel and Gretel Wed Eve. Otello Thurs. Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci Friday Faust Saturday Mat. Lohengrin Saturday Evening La Gioconda...