Word: eves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hughes was out of reach on the Supreme Court. Henry Prather Fletcher, shrewd diplomat, refused to serve unless, it was reported, he was made chairman of the delegation. No less unwilling were Republican Senators to absent themselves from their legislative duties to go on a diplomatic mission on the eve of an important political campaign. The President's inability to round up a top-notch delegation was in some quarters ascribed to a general foreboding that the conference would not succeed...
...prison, Thomas Mooney said that he was convinced that Governor James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph Jr. of California would not grant him the pardon for which Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker of New York went 3,000 mi. to beg last month. "Not a chance," said Prisoner Mooney, on the eve of his sixteenth Christmas behind bars since he and Warren K. Billings were convicted of bombing San Francisco's 1916 Preparedness Day parade. "Powers of business and politics will dictate Governor Rolph's decision. ... It looks as though I would go on for a long time peeling potatoes...
...discovery that it's smart to be bawdy may possibly be credited to magazine artists of the Arno-Soglow-Klein-Steig school. In The New Yorker their drawings are politely risque. In published albums (like Stag at Eve) they are elegantly ribald. From its first issue last summer Ballyhoo capitalized the discovery that smut, when smart, could tap an unashamed market. It based its appeal chiefly upon the business of making fun of the advertising business, but knew and pursued the sale value of scatology...
President Lowell cordially invites all men who are students in the University, and who do not go home for Christmas, to his house, 17 Quincy Street, on Christmas Eve from 8 to 10 o'clock in the evening...
President Lowell cordially invites all men who are students in the University, and who do not go home for Christmas, to his house, 17 Quincy Street, on Christmas Eve from 8 to 10 o'clock in the evening...