Word: eves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...party wound through tidewater streams to emerge in Ossabaw Sound. Gus Ohman, a guide who had taken President Cleveland fishing in these Georgia waters, told President Hoover the fish were "biting like hungry tigers" but the President got not even a nibble the first day out. Christmas Eve the President & party feasted on roast oysters at the Ossabaw Island place of H. N. Torrey of Detroit. They ate Christmas dinner as the guests of Howard Earle Coffin on Sapelo Island where Calvin Coolidge was entertained four years ago. Mr. Coffin and the President are remote cousins, their families having gone...
Jail Delivery. Under the widest amnesty granted in Germany since the Revolution of 1918, more than 10,000 political jailbirds - mostly Communists and Fascists-were let out of the Fatherland's jails on Christmas Eve or earlier in the week. This liberal gesture, designed to win popularity for the Cabinet of essentially unpopular and aristocratic General Kurt von Schleicher, was completed in able Santa-Claus fashion by giving each jailbird enough money to pay his carfare home and buy a Christmas dinner. Prisoners arrested in summer were given a winter overcoat, mittens...
...resuscitation in cases where the lungs stop working, Dr. Frank Cecil Eve of Hull, England, is recommending a marvelously simple method which he recently devised. He straps the patient on a stretcher, places the stretcher on a trestle, rhythmically teeters the stretcher up & down. The weight of the patient's viscera alternately pushes the diaphragm up & down, forces air in & out the lungs. Dr. Eve, who is consulting physician to the Royal Infirmary at Hull, 'finds this teeterboard respirator effective in acute diseases; it relieves the patient from any breathing effort. For infants a rocking chair serves just...
...large eyes, surrounded by holly wreaths. Helen Morgan sits on a piano, weeping and singing. George Gershwin caricatures his profile. Percy Crosby shows his "Skippy" kneeling by his bed, saying: "Dear God, it's funny how ya get to thinkin' of the old pals on Christmas Eve...
...rather than its accomplishment, in which case the time is not far distant when undergraduate rooms will really be decked with pennants, when there will be three fair co-eds surrounding each freshman and when poisoning is the least that may be expected by triple-threat men on the eve of the gamefl --New York Herald-Tribune...