Word: eves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact steadied the country-the Washington administration was on the eve of a change, a New Deal. When that prospect was threatened last week by crazy bullets fired at the President-elect in Miami, people seemed to feel that their faith in the future was also the assassin's target. At a tense psychological moment, Mr. Roosevelt's escape and cheerful reaction had a buoyant effect far beyond anything President Hoover could have said or done...
...Cross News, monthly journal for children, was a story about a 10-year-old Spaniard named Rafael and a donkey he found abandoned at the foot of a cliff. Uncle Bastiano and Aunt Ana did not care for their nephew's asinine Juanita. On St. Anthony's Eve, Rafael begged a peseta on the road, set out to have Juanita bedecked and blessed next day in front of the church. "Surely," thought he, "the Gentle Lord would heed his prayer that he and Juanita might not be separated." Sure enough, after the priest blessed Juanita, along with other...
...pottery household utensils, the remains of food in pots, clay fire-dogs on hearths, flint knives. Red paintings still decorate the walls. Dr. Herzfeld figures that the village flourished 4000 B. C. Just four years before and not many miles away, according to Holy Writ, God created Adam & Eve...
...also been agreed by Harvard and Yale officials to eliminate the Combination Race which usually has been held on the eve of the Regatta...
...patient who thinks he is Shakespeare (Geoffrey Kerr), leader of the Little Theatre movement within the walls, who starts the eminent theatricians on their collaboration. Pirandello, the metaphysician jumps at the notion. If these people think they are respectively Eve, Helen of Troy, Cleopatra, Menelaus, Marc Antony and Octavius, then they must be. And it will be a good thing for G. B. S., he wryly points out, to get an accurate picture of historical characterizations for once. Unruffled, Shaw agrees to join the venture if he can write in a scene, well prefaced, showing the evils of vivisection...