Word: eves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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History 40 under Mr. Doolin covers the history of France from the Wars of Religion to the eve of the French Revolution, with a liberal amount of attention paid to the political theorists of the period. The outstanding merit of the course is probably Mr. Doolin's ability to make the political events more understandable in the light of the political theory. The contributing causes of the Revolution are made to stand out vividly in the student's mind. Although his lectures are well filled with specific facts, Mr. Doolin has an enlightening habit of slipping in salient generalizations...
President and Mrs. Conant, following the custom inaugurated by President Lowell, will hold a reception Christmas Eve for students who are remaining in Cambridge during the Christmas holidays. The reception will be held at the President's House, 17 Quincy Street, from 8 to 10 o'clock...
...Thanksgiving Eve "Poor Devil" was idling through the Sept. 23 issue of The Literacy Digest. On p. 8 was a news photograph which made him suddenly shout, "That's me! That...
Before the audience there shuffied in two-four time five weary children of Eve, two women, three men. They did not dance; dancing is an expression of happiness. They slouched, two pairs walking slowly side by side, chained together at the wrists, the odd man lurching along alone, around and around the small roped-off circle before the spectators. Around and around they went, slowly, slowly, sometimes to raucous noise from a jazz orchestra, sometimes only to an inner rhythm of their own, around and around, slowly, slowly. The members of the audience kept close watch on those five faces...
...life was threatened, his friend Irmin of the British Secret Service discovered one of De-Vriendt's frailties. Knowing the perilous political situation in Jerusalem and fearing the consequences of what would look like a political murder, Irmin tried to get De Vriendt to leave town. On the eve of his departure he was shot. Immediately riots popped. The Agudists made a martyr of him; the Zionists and the Arabs each accused the other of his murder. Irmin began a relentless search for the killer. Meanwhile De Vriendt's followers had learned the shocking truth about him. Soon...