Word: eves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the week, the President did a lot of bustling in & out. On Christmas Eve, before a chilled crowd of 10,000 Washingtonians, he appeared on the White House lawn for the traditional lighting of a community tree. Christmas afternoon, he trudged out to the White House garage to shake hands with all the chauffeurs. He drove to the Navy's Bethesda Hospital and the Army's Walter Reed Hospital to greet disabled veterans. He received a cocker spaniel pup named Feller, the first presidential dog at the White House since the Roosevelt Scottie, Fala...
...British government doled out enough for a simple existence. He took the name Count of Pollenza, after a village in northern Italy. He walked and fished. When he read of events in his ex-country, he was heard to murmur, "This will be the death of me." On Christmas Eve, 1947, he was stricken with a lung infection complicated by hardening of the arteries. Four days later, in Alexandria, death, as it must to all kings, came to Victor Emmanuel. Clutching at a handkerchief, dry-eyed Elena sat up all night. In the morning a taxicab arrived with a plain...
Christmas Eve in Athens was peaceful. On café terraces around Sintagma Square people sipped coffee in bright sunshine. Flower stalls did a rush business in hyacinths, violets and almond blossoms. Hardly anyone heard the guerrilla announcement when it was first made, because Athens has been jamming the rebel broadcasts from the north...
Tequila & Sparklers. On Christmas Eve, after eight days of posadas, Mexico has its biggest feast of the year. Like the posada, this follows tradition. There is the Christmas salad-oranges, peanuts, lemons, beets, apples, almonds, and anything else at hand-which the father of the family always makes. Tequila is on the table, and in more prosperous homes wine and sometimes champagne. There are sparklers, like the ones in the U.S. on the Fourth of July. Not even the children go to bed, for in Mexico on Christmas Eve nobody sleeps...
...Year's Eve (Wed. 12 midnight, all networks). The big noise in Times Square and elsewhere, interlarded with dance music all night long...