Word: eves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...became a diplomatic reality, he sold the pact almost singlehanded to the Canadian people. Wherever he went he explained the pact in his customary ABC style of public speaking. He never missed a bet. "If we [all the people in the world] loved one another," he said last Christmas Eve when distributing gifts among a group of Quebec orphans, "there would be no need of an Atlantic pact...
...eve of the Washington talks, the bullyragging and the bitter recriminations that had passed between the U.S. and Britain faded into an abashed mumble-grumble. On both sides of the Atlantic, hot words cooled off under the growing realization that the British crisis was a crisis for the whole Western world...
...gawked earnestly at the gleaming Emerald Buddha in the Grand Palace temple. Bangkok's shops were bulging with niello silverware, hand-woven silks, carved teak heads and snakeskin bags. What was more, the prices were low. For lunch the visitors ate cold prawns in the air-conditioned Chez Eve,* while an Indonesian quartet imported from Singapore played Slow Boat to China...
...only way you can get a really honest opinion of your work is to get in front of an audience that pays to see you. Then you know in a minute if you're bad." Among the players who have kept the audiences paying for Broadway revivals: Eve Arden, Barry Sullivan, Ruth Hussey, Guy Madison, Diana Lynn, Sylvia Sidney, Reginald Denny, Jane Cowl Ann Harding, Laraine Day, Martha Scott the late Dame May Whitty...
Lucky has told U.S. friends that, somehow or other, he would get back to New York by next New Year's Eve. If they wanted to know where to meet him, let them look in the classified ads of the New York Times for Dec. 31. Meanwhile, last week, the frustrated city boy found it impossible to stay in even stodgy old Rome...