Word: eves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Karl Abt, poor workman, saw his old enemy Baron Mangien sneaking into somebody else's Berlin house on Christmas Eve, he smelled a rat, hoped he could trap it. Sure enough he caught the Baron with another man's wife, blackmailed him into changing clothes and pocketbooks for 48 hours. Revenge for social injustice was all Abt wanted, but somehow the Baron's fur coat and well-lined purse made life more complicated than ever. All his puzzling problems were solved when the lady's husband shot him. The Baron thanked his stars...
...beautiful little girl, adored only child of her parents, takes the principal part in the church Christmas Eve festival. What a strain! But what applause...
Therefore the British have aided Nadir Khan in two ways: 1) Lord Irwin, almost on the eve of surrendering the viceroyalty of India last April, promulgated a press ordinance making it a jailable offense for any editor to publish an article adversely affecting the relationship of India with her neighbors; 2) on May 30 a fleet of 40 two-ton trucks went through the Khyber Pass laden with British-bought, condemned French rifles and ammunition for the use of Nadir's armies. Altogether in the past seven months some 22,000 such rifles, with ammunition, have been shipped...
...political machine of his own; in fact no man or woman has within recent years been elected Mayor of Seattle without first promising the reappointment of Superintendent Ross. Frank Edwards, running as the "businessman's candidate" in 1928, made that same pledge. Last March on the eve of municipal election Mayor Edwards summarily dismissed Superintendent Ross for "inefficiency, disloyalty and wilful neglect." Nobody questioned Mayor Edwards' authority to discharge his Superintendent of City Light. What was questioned, though, were the reasons the Mayor gave for his action. Two ambitious young lawyers, M. A. Zioncheck and Frank Fitts, organized...
Confidence. Final evidence of President Hindenburg's stabilizing power upon his country was seen when the Council of Elders of the Reichstag met on the eve of Chancellor Brüning's departure for Paris. Mere mention of the possibility that Old Paul might resign was sufficient to squelch all talk of convening the Reichstag, to force a vote of confidence in Old Paul's man Brüning...