Word: eves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such were some of last week's reports on the eve of a national textile strike (TIME, Sept. 3). The working population of two San Franciscos would approximate the number of persons engaged in the textile industry. But two San Franciscos would occupy only a few square miles, whereas the major textile area of the U. S. stretches from Maine to Georgia. Of cotton textile workers alone North Carolina has 92,000, Massachusetts 71,000, South Carolina 70,000, Georgia 55,000, Alabama 25,000, Rhode Island 20,000. Some 400,000 cotton textile workers in 1,200 mills plus...
Bulk of the torch singing in the show is supplied by Joan Abbott, a pneumatic, wild-haired blonde with a cannonball delivery. She reaches her lyric zenith with a number called "Mother Eve" which seems to have Adam's wife confused with her competitor Lilith. More suitable for whistling: "Sleepy Moon...
...their bridal night. One day Eva rides off, undresses, attaches her clothes to her horse's saddle, goes in for a swim. While she is in the water her horse gallops off with her clothes. The lover appears to help her catch her runaway beast. Naked as Eve, Eva thanks the young man for her horse and clothes, is about to depart when she trips and suffers a slight accident which causes both to spend the night in a cabin. In the cabin scenes Czechoslovak Director de Machaty confines himself almost exclusively to close...
...eve of San Francisco's general strike last month, quiet-spoken Publisher George Toland Cameron of the Chronicle took rooms for his newshawks at a hotel across the street from his plant, filled his basement with foodstuffs, bided his time. When the strike hit the city's food supply, he fed his employes in the Chronicle's cooking school on the second floor of his Gothic building, cheered up photographers who returned from the embattled Embarcadero with smashed cameras, had a pat on the back for red-eyed, coughing newshawks who had been through the No-Man's Land...
...story is one of liquor, love and fights, of the Lantenengo Street smart set of Gibbsville, of the town's underworld. Julian and Caroline English, married four years and still in love with each other, attend a Christmas Eve party at the Lantenengo Country Club. There Julian gets drunk, dashes his highball into the fat face of the richest man in town whose stories are a bore. Result: a black eye for the richest man in town, new enemies for Julian, a fight with Caroline...