Word: eves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Promptly Mrs. Roosevelt invited the girls to a garden party at the White House. On the eve of the party, she told her press conference with indignation of conditions at the School: 60 girls, mostly Negroes, aged 14 to 21, were its inmates. All had been thrice convicted, mostly for sex offenses. Twenty-six of the girls were syphilitic and practically all of them had gonorrhea. There was no full-time doctor in attendance. The girls lived in locked cells on unlighted brick corridors, with only one toilet and one bathtub (with no hot water) for every 16 girls...
...eve of another national election, the Republicans are announcing their own "brain trust" Republican college professors to show Democratic college professors they are wrong. Heading the new "trust" is Dr. Olin Glenn sazon, professor of business administration at Yale, Harvard Phi Beta Kappa, Dr. Olin once a broker at other times a lawyer is quick spoken and business like no dreamer to displace Republican Big Business aligned against the Administration...
...Field. H. John Adzigian '36 will be responsible for the Class Day supper in the Houses, and, finally, Braman H. Gibbs '36 will be in charge of seeing that the Instrumental and Glee Club concert, to be held in the House Quadrangle at 8.15 o'clock on Class Day eve, is run off smoothly...
This strange young man first distinguished himself from his 434 colleagues on the tail end of last New Year's Eve. Entering a Washington apartment house, he shouldered the Negro switchboard operator aside, merrily plugged in every telephone in the building. Four husky policemen testified in court that Representative Zioncheck was so drunk that they had had to support him when they removed him from the building. Convicted of drunken & disorderly conduct, he took a copy of the court proceedings to the House, asked unanimous consent to have them printed in the Congressional Record. "I think," declared the indignant...
...pioneers who settled the city, then of the Great Fire (i. e. earthquake) with its ruins & ashes, then of "the almost childish delight of a people who have a continental love for artistic pursuits." In his scherzo he quoted from Cara Nome, harking back to the Christmas Eve in 1910 when Luisa Tetrazzini sang it on the square by Lotta's Fountain. In the finale he loudly attempted to glorify modern engineering, the skyscrapers and the great new bridge over San Francisco...