Word: eves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Majority Leader Killgrew appealed to the higher emotions (not to say intellect) of his colleagues, remarking in scholarly fashion: "Why, even go back to Adam and Eve, and you find they even were a fig leaf," Fortunately no fellow-legislator cared to delve into the pre-fig leaf period and quote the twenty-fifth verse of Chapter two of Genesis: "And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed."--but there was no second "person of the opposite sex" present, so that our first parents need not add a misdemeanor to their already heavy burden...
Haiti. Because the steersman was careless, Christopher Columbus' flagship Santa Maria went hopelessly aground somewhere off Haiti on Christmas Eve, 1492. The ship was unloaded and from her timbers the doughty admiral, bent on founding a colony, built a fort which he called La Navidad-his first New World settlement. Columbus traded falcon bells to the natives for gold, left 44 of his men in charge, sailed off to new adventures. When he returned to the island during his second voyage he found the fort burned, the men massacred by natives or scattered in the wilds. The question remained...
Last week's burlesque, staged on the eve of the Company's departure for Boston, showed various ways opera might be enlivened and perhaps made to pay. Baritone Lawrence Tibbett crawled inside the Siegfried dragon and mourned because "no cigaret or corset ever asked me to endorse it." Coming events were then advertised in lurid cinemafashion. Tosca's name was changed to "Hungry Passions." Rigoletto became "The Hunchback in the Harem." For the sake of the tired businessman, Wagner's Nibelungen Ring was whisked off in less than two minutes...
...pontifical Latin, prepared for him, as always, by his Congregation for Latin Letters, Pope Pius XI last week solemnly flayed Nudism. Speaking before Lenten preachers on the eve of Ash Wednesday, he declared...
Newshawks found "Eve" Shinn in the middle of his gallery last week, re-enacting for the benefit of a few oldtimers another of his melodramas, dear to the author but less successful commercially than Hazel Weston. It was entitled Lucy Moore, the Prune Hater's Daughter. Leaping about the room, acting out each part and interpolating editorial comments, Artist Shinn gave his version of the plot. Excerpts...