Word: eves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Vexed because the rich Los Angeles broker who had furtively married her took his mother, instead of her, to a party last New Year's Eve, emotional Helen Wills Love, 31, went to the party anyway, shot Mr. Love dead. Mrs. Love's arrest, indictment and trial turned out to be the midwinter sensation of Southern California. She was amply photographed kissing her late husband in his coffin, and during the trial one of the women jurors was removed for habitually getting drunk on liquor which she hid in the women's toilet. Fortnight ago, the other...
...book has its basis, as the title suggests, in thoughts which passed through the author's mind one night in the desert. Priestley had spent the winter of 1935 in America, and on the eve of his departure, he goes to his shack in the desert to collect his manuscripts and notes. As he passes over the scattered pages, memories of their significance come into his mind. With this as the structure of his book, he goes on with no definite order to give his memoirs and thoughts about various incidents and phases of his travels in this country...
...going to work and work hard," said head football coach Dick Harlow yesterday on the eve of the spring practice for his third football season at Harvard. The opening session gets under way today at 4:30 o'clock in the Briggs Cage...
...years ago Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King of Canada paid a social visit at the White House, for no ostensible reason except friendship. The prompt upshot was the U. S.-Canadian reciprocal trade agreement. Last week, on the eve of another visit by Mr. King, the press asked President Roosevelt what he and the Prime Minister expected to discuss. Was it by any chance a new St. Lawrence Waterway Treaty? The President waved this suggestion aside. The subjects of discussion, he declared expansively, would include ''North, Central and South America and the world in general...
What should a minister do when, on the eve of a large formal wedding at which he has agreed to officiate, he learns that the couple are already secretly married? Should he decline to proceed, thus acutely embarrassing the bride's parents, who are members in good standing of his flock? Or should he connive at a deception, assist at a mockery of a sacred ceremony...