Word: eves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Scot MacDonald, was rewarded last week with the Home Office. His Liberal bloc met in caucus during the week, elected him leader of what hereafter will be the Liberal Party. David Lloyd George, from whom all but four Liberal M. P.'s? have bolted, sourly announced on the eve of Leader Sir Herbert's election that he, Mr. Lloyd George, was "not a candidate...
...doubtless know, Friday evening is the eve of the Sabbath for those of the Jewish Faith and at the time of your broadcast we are in our Houses of Worship. This deprives many of your subscribers and readers, as well as many listeners, of a most stimulating enactment of affairs of the past week. Wednesday evening, of course, would deprive other faiths and Sunday evening practically all Christian denominations hold religious services...
...most important epoch in Eugene O'Neill's life is not his dismissal from Princeton in 1907 for hijinks, not the period in which he bummed about on ships, not even his long association with the Provincetown Players. It begins on Christmas Eve, 1912, when drink and irregular habits sent him into the Gaylord Farm (Wallingford, Conn.) sanitarium, a tuberculous patient. His biographers note that he went in a boy and came out a man. At least, that was where he started writing seriously. Up to that time his sorely-tried father, Actor James O'Neill, thought...
...recalls the somewhat complicated action, it deals with one of those polished but weary captains of metropolitan industry who is on the eve of eloping with a reluctant secretary just after making miserable the corporate existence of a vague South American Republic through the calculated failure of a rival bank. Naturally any number of unsuspected people are out to destroy the polite and powerful arch-criminal from the start of the piece, and this in itself is enough to furnish adequate excitement for three acts. The role in question is exceedingly well played by Mr. Francis Compton, possibly the least...
...Laval and President Herbert Clark Hoover are the world's two key men. Last week they made plans to meet in Washington the latter part of this month. To the international Press went most of the credit for the Laval-Hoover meeting. Fortnight ago in Paris, on the eve of Premier Laval's departure for Berlin (see p. 19), it was reported that M. Laval "was considering an American trip." Apparently this report was purest fiction, but there was nothing for fleshy Ambassador Walter Evans Edge to do but go over to M. Laval's office...