Word: eves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were 5,000 young Blackshirts in armored trucks. Along the Sudan border they rolled almost without opposition to the gates of Gondar, important caravan town near Lake Tana. Colonel Starace. who can do nothing without making a speech, saw to it last week that his speech on the eve of capturing Gondar reached every foreign correspondent...
...liaison between insurance companies and the underworld, from which the companies were interested in recovering stolen gems to obviate payments to their clients. Morey (Walter Pidgeon) is the private detective of Big Brown Eyes, working with an associate whose crimes include infanticide. The Big Brown Eyes are Eve's (Joan Bennett), who has been transformed from a quiet type into a slangy manicurist whose assured deportment and reconditioned make-up make her virtually indistinguishable from Carole Lombard. The small blue eyes which Na ture gave her have been photographed with magenta lighting so as to look big and brown...
...India, Persia and Mesopotamia about 6000 B. C. A sharply emerging concept of personal property was indicated by clay seals. One seal portrayed a huge, vulture-like bird hovering over a stag, another a man and woman cowering before a serpent, no doubt a local variant of the Adam & Eve story. A seal found on Level Eleven depicted two men stirring a vat with long poles; the diggers took it to be the earliest known representation of a brewery...
When Elizabeth died and James I, who hated tobacco and feared Spain, succeeded her, Ralegh was left in a dangerous spot. Spain wanted his head, and James was more than willing to comply. On a cooked-up charge of treason, Ralegh was tried and condemned to death. On the eve of execution he wrote his famed farewell to his wife: "First. I send you all the thanks my heart can conceive, or my pen express, for your many troubles and cares taken for me. which-though they have not .taken effect as you wished-yet my debt...
...bloody body of Vincent van Gogh minus one ear. Artist van Gogh was not dead but in a cataleptic trance. He had cut off his own ear by way of self-punishment. Paul Gauguin had had nothing to do with it beyond the fact that he had spent Christmas Eve in his friend's company. The two lived to rank among the greatest of French modernists. Both were mouse-poor and half-insane when they died. Both have been made the protagonists of best-selling novels.* Last week Manhattan's Wildenstein Galleries did its best to give Paul...