Word: eves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...intense interest in child welfare and happiness. Not since the romping Roosevelts has the White House had such a Christmas celebration as was given the Hoover grandchildren-Peggy Anne, 4, Herbert III, 3, Joan, six months. No one worked harder for their good time than Grandfather Hoover. On Christmas Eve when President Hoover returned to the White House from Sherman Square where he had lighted Washington's community tree and broadcast a 37-word holiday greeting to the land, there was a dinner for the children of the President's secretaries and aides- the three Akerson boys, John...
Professor John Erskine of Columbia University, who has since come to fame as a novelist (The Private Life of Helen of Troy, Galahad, Adam and Eve), was sent to France during the War as education chief for the A. E. F. Early in 1918 he visited the front lines of the French Army. He wrote some sonnets about what he saw and felt. Some of the verses, "At the Front . . . First Impressions," he gave to Franklin Pierce Adams ("F. P. A."), now the New York World's famed colyumist, then a staffman on The Stars & Stripes...
Prosaic inhabitants of the small Idaho towns of Bovill, Orofino, Troy, Elk River, Moscow, Genesee, Lewiston, Orchard, Juliaetta and Kendrick, last week were hunting for a big hole in the earth. More superstitious citizens put their heads together, whispered of miracles. On Christmas Eve they had seen a strang light yellow light rip earthwards through the sky of northern Idaho. Then they heard a deafening crash. The flash was seen as far as Spokane, Wash., over 100 mi. Mrs. Joseph Holland, who said she saw it on her way home from church, described the phenomenon for newsgatherers as "three glowing...
...affairs of the motor-makers, for their demands stimulate many lines. And, beyond this definite relationship, automobile sales are a sensitive index to the public's purse. As yet the industry has shown no marked improvement from the depression caused by its excess of production on the eve of a business slump. Some dealers still have unwieldy stocks of second-hand cars. Although inventories of the manufacturers and dealers are in the best condition in years and cash reserves are high the industry as a whole is overexpanded. The Automobile Salon (TIME, Dec. 15) forecast the efforts the companies...
...last moment came a hitch. The Pope wanted also to issue a Christmas message to all his cardinals. This was timed for Christmas Eve. The publicity given a message to the U. S. might detract from the effect of the message to the cardinals...