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Word: eves (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pandora and Eve and all women will go to any lengths to get knowledge. One hundred blithe and debonair damsels from Stephens College, Missouri, are now for the first time enjoying first-hand information of this great world. Under the watchful surveillance of a dean, a nurse and a biological expert, the contingent is exploring the most tempting and interesting parts of New York. "We want the girls to have a good time, "the dean stated; while the president explained that the tour was intended to acquaint the young women with facts. The girls, under the supervision of the biological...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE TRAVEL OF WOMEN | 3/2/1932 | See Source »

...that Handy returns to his family incognito after years of wandering. Considered a ne'er de well before his departure, he made a fortune in oil during his wanderings, left it to his wife and two daughters and faded out of the scene, reputedly dead. He returns on the eve of an elaborate soiree by which the two daughters and the husband of one of them, Helford by name, hope to crash the local 400. Much to their alarm their mother, who makes no pretense of her humble origin, engages the genial old wanderer, unaware of his identity, to help...

Author: By R. O. B., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 2/24/1932 | See Source »

...Royal Box." On New Year's Eve Federal Prohibition agents swooped down upon it in a wellpublicized, spectacular raid. "What a pity!" he lamented. "We had . . . the nicest people . . . 16 cooks. . . . It was not like a club; it was like a home. . . . My heart broke." The day previous he had withdrawn his play, Papavert, from Broadway. Refurbished, renamed Mr. Papavert to preclude confusion with Freudian categories, it was later reopened. After eleven per formances the play, though very funny in France, closed with a loss of $35,000. On the day it closed, he intrepidly opened his second speakeasy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Business & Finance, Feb. 22, 1932 | 2/22/1932 | See Source »

...Studio Players are gathered from the company and school of Eve Le Gallienne's New York Civic Repertory Theatre. They have firmly established their reputation as an organization of exceptional worth by two productions which they gave in Brattle Hall at an earlier date. One of these was G. Bernard Shaw's "Great Catherine" and the other Ibsen's "When We Dead Awake." Both were exceptionally well performed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDIO PLAYERS WILL GIVE "UNCLE VANYA" | 2/18/1932 | See Source »

...point in favor of a stiff Princeton resistance is the fact that L. S. Dillingham '34, star Crimson forward, will not see action tomorrow as he is still convalescing from an operation, which caused Coach Sharp to change the line-up in a radical, but successful way on the eve of the game with the Lancers a few weeks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRINCETON POLO TRIO OPENS NEW SERIES HERE | 2/5/1932 | See Source »

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