Word: eves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Water pipes bursting caused a minor flood throughout C entry of Holworthy on New Year's Eve...
Second and more important imponderable is Franklin Roosevelt who, as all Washington knows, has an impulsive habit of thinking up things for Congress to do at the last minute. Last year he tossed a new tax bill without warning into the Capitol on the eve of adjournment, precipitated late-summer anguish for all concerned. Now, intent, as he has announced, on a short session of Congress, he has made up his mind to a short legislative program. But at any time he may decide that the U. S. wants a new act to promote low-cost housing, amendments...
...Dining Hall war quite active, serving an average of a hundred and twenty men each meal with a top of two hundred and twenty-nine. For breakfast after New Year's Eve only thirty-seven men made their appearance...
...Square was gay New Year's Eve. The University Theatre showed "In Person" and "Splendor" and standing room only prevailed after 8 o'clock. There was no midnight show, but there was one of those shorts in which, with much ringing of bells and to the tune of Auld Lang Syne the figures 1935 were swept away by Father Time's sickle and the figures 1936 gaily substituted...
...length play (Awake and Sing!) behind him within a twelvemonth, with his ears ringing with more critical praise than many an older playwright has achieved in a full career, 29-year-old Clifford Odets undertook to explain to metropolitan critics just what his latest play was about. On the eve of Paradise Last's premiere he announced that the hero of his play was "the entire American middle-class of liberal tendency...