Word: eves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Writer: Eve Garrette Grady who pictured herself as "a young lady in a white-linen frock and a panama hat," escorted about Moscow by "a tall, dignified American gentleman, impeccably dressed by Bond Street"?apparently her husband...
Serious Matters? Eve Garrette Grady wrote that she learned not to laugh when clothes-hungry Russians asked her on the street for how much she would sell, then and there, her panama hat, her white linen frock, even her silk stockings...
...young subaltern, a few years out of Harrow, joins the colonial army on New Year's Eve, 1905. The book, then, is a chronicle of the experiences of an Anglo-Indian Army officer over a period of years. Put in that way, nothing could seem more tedious and dull. Yet, the casual reader who has scrupously avoided, perhaps through laziness, the countless "Mother Indias" and now watches the columns of the daily press with some dismay, can be assured that the "Bengal Lancer" has come closer to India than any of his predecessors. Lowell Thomas, no mean adventurer himself, said...
...relatives buried Agnes in their yard. Constantine, first Christian emperor, built a church over her grave. Pope Honorius repaired that church some 1300 years ago. Agnes as Saint became the patron of young girls. The eve of her Day (Jan. 21) many girls would resort to quaint magic to discern their future husbands...
...Poet John Keats (1795-1821) romanticized these rural revelries in his "Eve of St. Agnes...