Word: eves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week Kentucky was shocked again and General Denhardt's troubles were over forever. Free on $25,000 bail, on the eve of a second trial, he was walking with an attorney on a dark street in Shelbyville. Three men got out of a car, fired a fusillade of shots. Seven bullets struck Denhardt, and he died almost instantly. Within a quarter hour the sheriff had taken Mrs. Taylor's three brothers-Jack, Roy and E. S. Garr-into custody...
...prepare himself spiritually for his grueling week of speeches Der Führer went on the eve of the Congress to Nurnberg's annual command performance of his favorite opera, a five-hour unabridged performance of Wagner's Die Meistersinger, heard his favorite tenor, soulful-looking Eyvind Lahome (nè plain Victor Johnson of Birmingham, Ala.). Despite Der Fuhrer's frequent blasts against the U. S. in general, Herr Hitler applauds U. S. Citizen Lahome in particular as the ideal interpreter of Walther the Wagnerian knight, has awarded him the rare State title of Kammersänger...
Vigorously tossing his grey mane in the face of a microphone, John Llewellyn Lewis last week on the eve of Labor Day week-end delivered a message to the Union on the State of Labor. For all U. S. Labor the preceding twelve months had been-by moderate estimate-the most significant in history. Both in power and numbers the U. S. Labor movement reached an all-time peak. In its Wagner Act decisions the Supreme Court had substantially upheld the labor laws of the New Deal. Springing full-grown from the forehead...
...judge's prejudice. Convicted, he flees to England. But presently a new French Government orders the Dreyfus case reopened and the prisoner is acquitted. In real life Zola lived on for three years before he was asphyxiated by a leaky flue. In the picture he dies on the eve of Dreyfus' reinstatement in the army. His epitaph, pronounced in the Pantheon by Anatole France (Morris Carnovsky), gives the picture a magnificent last line: "He [Zola] was a moment in the conscience...
...clear and clean, and your minds are clean though not clear, but your tongue is a pigsty of foulness." To which Ivan replied : "We are sons of pigs; a pig was my nurse." When an old Bolshevik turned up, Ivan and Hilda joined the Cause. The time was the eve of the World...