Word: eves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Public Ledger was running Isles of Fear serially. F. W. Welty, a prominent Catholic layman, was Managing Editor and the undersigned was reading Mayo's stuff on the night copy desk. Well, you know how it is Christmas Eve. The piece for the next day came over the desk when the undersigned was feeling as a person working on Christmas Eve does feel, and it got only a cursory reading, a few paragraph marks and a head. Well, so Christmas Day, the Ledger published a gratuitous insult to the Virgin Mary, it being Miss Mayo's opinion...
...eve of the fourteenth, Anna is ordered by the proprietor of a "Dancing" to depart with her flowers; "she does not like to be kissed by drunk and very very rich patrons, well she shall leave." Slightly annoyed, Anna meets her neighbor Jean, a taxi driver, and tells him her woes. Anna and Jean appear to be fond of one another; they quarrel; they settle their petty grievances in a doorway. The rain that had scattered the jubilant throng stops. Life is indeed pleasant. But there is a harlotish-looking friend of Jean who drops into his room and insists...
...Scotsmen, New Year's Eve is Hogmanay, a time for revelry and rejoicing...
...less than memorable for Nazi Germany. Though boys on the streets sold Wilhelm's favorite flower, the blue cornflower, to help the Nazi winter relief fund, Storm Troopers broke up a Monarchists' birthday eve ball in Berlin. Other troopers cut short a ceremonial toast of onetime Imperial Army officers to Wilhelm's birthday while still others patrolled Berlin's streets denuding house fronts of the Imperial flag. Said a Nazi leader, with an eye to Nazi history books: "Hitler is the restorer of authority from above and discipline from below. He is the restorer of self...
...front of Manhattan's Homicide Court one day last week. To be arraigned were seven men accused of stabbing to death huge Archbishop Leon Tourian, primate of 130,000 souls in the Armenian Apostolic Church in America, before the altar of Holy Cross Armenian Church on Christmas Eve (TIME, Jan. 1). The mob lusted to get their vengeful hands upon the seven, but 75 mounted police charged into the street, drove them back. From nowhere, a patrol wagon whizzed up, out of which seven trembling Armenians were hustled into court. Promptly their case was adjourned...