Word: eves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...riding, Wild Bill Hickock, and Jean Arthur as the colorful figure of Calamity Jane, the picture needs only the barest outline of a plot to make it a huge success, but "The Plainsman" has more than this. It embraces the condensation of the period of frontier development from the eve of Lincoln's assassination to and through the reign of Buffalo Bill Cody...
This was fair Fascist-Nazi warning to British Laborites, on the eve of the House of Commons' reconvening this week, that Labor Party Leader Major Clement Richard Attlee has got to show whether his vitals are made of iron or of butter. It was scarcely worth denying that His Majesty's Government are now in cahoots against the Spanish Reds with Hitler and Mussolini...
Since then a new line, probably caused by a known element in a highly excited energy state, had appeared in the red zone of the spectrum, and two sodium lines had increased in brightness, reaching a maximum in December and disappearing on Christmas Eve. On Christmas night there were new sodium lines. "I had to leave them to come here," said Dr. Cherrington. "I don't know what has been going on up there since." Some 40 novae have been found since 1900, but they were all much fainter and farther away than Gamma Cassiopeiae...
Wearing her $300,000, 44½-carat Hope Diamond and six diamond bracelets, Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean (Father Struck It Rich) revived her celebrated Washington New Year's Eve Party in honor of her son. John Randolph ("Jock") McLean, who will be 21 next month. Son Jock, his guest Patricia Ziegfeld. the late Florenz Ziegfeld's daughter, and 1.000 other merrymakers danced around to two bands in two ballrooms, drank 120 gal. of champagne. 55 gal. of Scotch whiskey...
...East Orange, Vt., New Year's Eve celebrants stripped Marvin Follansbee, 27, cut off his hair, painted him with red and yellow stripes. Next morning the coroner did not know whether Follansbee's death was caused by the alcohol in his brain or the paint in his pores...