Word: eves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eve" Shinn has been married four times. His third wife obtained a divorce in 1932 on the grounds that her husband forced her to pose nude in an unheated room, offered nude photographs of her to his friends as souvenirs. Two years ago he married an extremely pretty girl of 21. When he was younger he practiced acrobatics until he became expert, haunted vaudeville theatres, performed somersaults in theatre lobbies, went home to try to repeat the stunts he had seen on the stage. Once he spent the night with a one-eyed Civil War veteran sitting...
...none, including the late, lusty George Luks, had a more adventurous life than Everett Shinn. A fat little Quaker boy in Woodstown, N. J., he was known as "Pud" (pudding) to his contemporaries. Now 58, "Pud" Shinn is as wiry as a fox terrier, is better known as "Eve...
...other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, Franklin Roosevelt was doing his best to influence the fortunes of the war. On the eve of the Senate debate he had General Robert E. Wood, president of Sears, Roebuck, come to Washington. An advocate of dollar devaluation, of the self- contained-nation theory of trade, General Wood has long been sympathetic with New Deal experiments. As businessman, he has served on NRA's Consumers' Advisory Board, on Secretary Roper's Business Council. Newshawks jumped to the conclusion that the President was grooming General Wood to succeed S. Clay Williams when...
...eve of "settlement day," when the pepper plungers would have to lay nearly $10,000,000 cash on the line for their contracts, came news that a fresh pepper shipment of 13,000,000 Ib. was London-bound aboard a steamer ploughing up the Red Sea. And when Garabed Bishirgian returned from his week end with his 600 pigs in Surrey, he found that pepper trading had been suspended...
...Christmas Eve, Monday, December twenty-fourth, President and Mrs. Conant will be at home to all students in the University who may be in Cambridge during the Christmas holidays, at the President's house, 17 Quincy Street, at eight o'clock...