Word: eves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Glittering Prize. For the winner, the nomination would be more than "the glittering prize" which Historian James Bryce once called it. It would be a terrible responsibility. On the eve of the convention, Dwight Eisenhower, who had been the people's first choice in virtually every pre-convention poll, reminded Republicans of that worldwide fact...
...lyrics in half an hour. They sang it over the phone to Producer Walter Lantz, whose animated cartoon hero Woody Woodpecker also uses the laugh, then whooshed it off to a publisher. Kay Kyser got it on wax just before James Caesar Petrillo's New Year's Eve recording ban. Tibbies and Idriss, still playing in the band on the Joan Davis show, stand to make $10,000 apiece from...
...added some new twists of their own. Soviet Major Vassily Bagrov wanted to say a good deal about "The Shady Aspects of Celibacy" when discussing the Renaissance church. The other powers said no; but they agreed to let him have a chapter on "The Class Struggle on the Eve of the Reformation...
...formed the tradition that is to be continued today. It is a tradition that has become more and more refined since 1834, a process that seems to have followed President Lowell's general rule that "men removed by a few degrees above the savage state, as youths on the eve of graduating from our colleges often are, put up with course amusements only because no refined ones are offered in their stead." Today, for instance, there will be a baseball game instead of the nineteenth century's dance around the Liberty Tree, which involved holding hands and skipping about...
...excessive overwork which is propitious neither to my work nor to my health," Wilhelmina said she would give up the throne in favor of Princess Juliana. (At a ten-minute ceremony in the Knights' Hall at The Hague, Juliana was sworn in as regent.) On Aug. 30-the eve of her 68th birthday-Wilhelmina would resume the throne for a week of jubilee. Sept. 6 would be the 50th anniversary of her reign. On that day (or shortly thereafter) Juliana would become Queen of The Netherlands...