Word: eves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus, on the eve of Yom Kippur, he released his Niles-authored statement bluntly demanding that Britain let 100,000 Jews into Palestine immediately. The outraged cries were loud from the Arabs and from Britain, but organized U.S. Jewry applauded. And the President was not alone in playing politics. In his Manhattan speech, Governor Dewey blandly called for an immigration of several hundred thousand Jews into Palestine...
...contrary to popular notion, absolute sterility is rare. Failure to conceive is often due to fatigue, overweight, nervous strain, emotional tension between husband & wife, or simply too infrequent sexual relations. On more than one occasion, the Cleveland doctors have even discovered patients who were more innocent than Adam & Eve...
Professor Evans roams far & wide in the age-old land of nonsense. He reminds his readers that generations of theologians debated the question of whether Adam and Eve had navels, and in the 18th Century were especially concerned over the exact location of Noah's cabin on the Ark. He comes down hard on such promotional notions as "miraculous cures" (highly profitable to the yellow press), and has fun with the thousands who earnestly believe that a curse lies upon those who excavated the tomb of Tutankhamen (Mystery-Writer Edgar Wallace once noted ominously "that the very...
...eve of moving from the wartime Naval Headquarters at the President's House on Quincy Street to the permanent Naval Science Headquarters at 28 Divinity Place, Captain Bonney explained that undergraduates could now enter the unit as regular, contract, or Naval Science students not working toward a commission...
Buried as it is beneath production numbers as tasteless as they are big, even Porter's music fails to take the curse off "Night and Day." Except for Eve Arden's husky version of "I'm Unlucky at Gambling," a little known example of Porter's sophisticated style, and Mary Martin's classic "My Heart Belongs to Daddy," the songs are better off on the radio or records...