Word: eves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...subcommittee on Naval Appropriations that after the next session of Congress has met, it is possible that I may send supplementary estimates for commencing construction on a number of ships additional to the above program?" ¶In a proclamation carefully guarded until markets closed on New Year's Eve, the President set the U. S. Treasury's price for newly mined domestic silver down from 77|½ an ounce, where it had been since 1935, to 64½ an ounce, where it was first pegged when the New Deal started juggling with the price in December...
Incidentally, the whole chorus was entertained on New Year's Eve by Jaakko Mikkola, coach of the track team and himself a Finn...
...grave and discreet voice, it would be too dangerous; he might even be killed. No, it would not do; look at the ice, at the Highway Department--which was so slow to sand the roads, at the number of drivers who skidded into telephone poles on Christmas eve...
...restrain radio's funnymen from capitalizing on her bawdy Adam & Eve skit (TIME, Dec. 27), National Broadcasting Co. issued a ukase barring mention of Mae West on programs of the 15 stations it ovi'ns or operates. Not affected were 130 independent stations leasing NBC broadcasts...
Sexational, robustious Cinemactress Mae West appeared on a commercial broadcast for the first time in four years. Result: the most indignant wave of protest from radio listeners in radio's history. Cause: Miss West had turned the Biblical story of Adam & Eve into a burlesque act full of drawling double-entendres, elliptical references to fig leaves and nakedness, talk of the "original applesauce." No sooner had the program closed than angry comments began to pour in to the sponsors (Chase & Sanborn), the broadcasting company (NBC), the advertising agents (J. Walter Thompson). The National Legion of Decency threatened to clean...