Word: eves
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first time I ever saw Alexander Woollcott was in Heywood Broun's Paris studio, on New Year's Eve, 1918. He was then a private in the United States Medical Corps, and his O. D.'s made him look more like Bairnsfather than Dickens...
...picked by Bishop Brown, one by the Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church, the third by agreement of the other two judges) shall report as to whether or not there is a schism between Anglo-American orthodox Christianism and modern scientism concerning: creation of the universe, Adam and Eve, birth of Jesus, His second coming to raise the dead and other theological questions. Bishop Brown's book denies nearly every cardinal doctrine of the Christian faith. Bishop Gailor declares that "it would be as easy to crush the heretical representations of Communism and Christianism as to smash...
George Grey Barnard, American sculptor, is completing a heroic group of Adam and Eve for a secluded spot in John D. Rockefeller's estate at Pocantico Hills, N. Y. The figure of Adam is 25 feet high, and the two are said to have been cut from the largest block of Carrara marble ever brought to America. The design represents Eve issuing from the rib of Adam. Mr. Barnard has been at work on the piece several years. The legend is current in art circles that at one time the elder Rockefeller was opposed to the nude in sculpture...
...some indeterminate reason is consistently described by sporting writers as a genial, well-met character, has called the English poor sports. Hagen recently lost the British open golf championship by one stroke. By implication he attributed the loss to the English ruling against "punched" clubs on the eve of the Troon Tournament. Apparently, Hagen has not learned that reticence is synonymous with the graceful loser. His characterization of the English carries a back spin...
Parallels are not hard to find with Theodore Roosevelt,* whose neice he married. Both went to Harvard, to Albany, to the Navy Department on the eve of war, and both were shuttled into vice presidential candidates. Franklin is as good a Democrat as Theodore was a Republican. He fought Tammany as the other Roosevelt fought the Old Guard. And both are associated with a love of books, people and the out-of-doors. Both favored large families...