Word: eves
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...began her career in The Truth About Blayds (1922), is still well and honestly within her 20's. Discerning spectators along the "road" soon realized how lucky they were to see a Portia who was neither an old stager nor an eager young thing with stiff knees and an Eve's apple. Thoroughly feminine in the love scenes, persuasively austere in the court room, highly decorative at all times, the Inescort Portia was a characterization high of spirit, finely and clearly enunciated. After seeing her in Chicago, an astute Jewish criminal lawyer offered Miss Inescort a job on his staff...
Newell is comparatively inexperienced. Last season he saw little action and during this campaign has seen service in only one important contest, the first Toronto game. In that New Year's Eve clash, Newell at times stood up admirably under the fire of the Canadian assault. The outcome of tonight's game depends largely on his performance; and it is possible that he may exceed expectations under the onus of his responsibilities...
Also, of course, Mr. & Mrs. Coolidge left the White House behind. On inauguration eve they had Mr. and Mrs. Hoover, Senator Curtis and Mrs. E. E. Gann, the Senator's sister, to dinner and showed the new President and first lady their new quarters...
...minds one way or another about the virgin birth of Jesus Christ. Yet so potent is the subject that shrewd Evangelist William Ashley ("Billy") Sunday has chosen it as the main theme of his latest barnstorming tour. In Elyria, Ohio, he gospel-shouted last week: "God made Adam and Eve without human agencies. So he certainly could create Jesus in a supernatural manner...
Alden Bennington is on the eve of his marriage to a woman he admires and respects but does not love. He is called to the telephone and thrown into constemation on hearing the girl he really loves warn him she would never marry, and would wait forever for him. Truly a pleasant thing to tell a man the evening he is about to "embark on the greatest adventure in life...