Word: eves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Approved his Inaugural Committee's selection of Music Czar James Caesar Petrillo to put together and direct a mammoth three-hour Inaugural Eve show in Washington featuring movie, stage and radio stars, bands, opera singers and a symphony orchestra...
...only student who did not wear a queue; in those days queuelessness was a sign of dangerous, republican thoughts. The high marks got him a chance to study at a military school in Tokyo. And here, with other young Chinese, he met Sun Yat-sen on the eve of the October 1911 revolt against the Manchu dynasty. Once the revolution began, Chiang hurried back to China, joined Sun's new Kuomintang (National People's Party). There was plenty of soldiering to be done. Chiang became Sun's trusted lieutenant. He also found time to marry the girl...
...Namesake. In Mexico City last week, on the eve of the 38th anniversary of the revolution, a flashing-eyed, 18-year-old beauty named Rosa Maria Franco was chosen "Adelita 1948." With rifle belts slung across her shoulders, she led a parade across the Zocalo and was wined & dined at Ciro...
...Riviera and playing football as the "home team" for Nice. McCabe could go down with the team, or use his points to get a discharge. He decided to go home to his family and the wife he had married early in 1944. Ben came home on Christmas eve...
Mitzi's prone, aluminum Lovers (TIME, May 5, 1947) was almost embarrassingly specific, but her bronze Eve (see cut) showed the highly literary kind of generalization Mitzi was after. Eve looked a little pregnant; the applelike belly was inlaid with a brass circle and what looked like veins. "I wanted a feeling of built-in guilt," said Mitzi...