Word: eves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Trivial . . . were your reviewer's rather snide remarks [TIME, April 8] about my "sub-historical" stuff (in Intimations of Eve), and my Tarzanish and Alley-Oopian portrayals; but of greater moment is his deft effort to conceal his ignorance and suggest his erudition with such remarks: "Experts may wish to argue . . . whether the principle of the canoe was grasped before the principle of the baby...
...salary any Hungarian could earn today. Hungarians got five ounces of bread daily. City-dwellers jammed trains to scour the countryside for food. . . . In Italy, where one of Europe's lowest bread rations was about to be cut again, Premier Alcide de Gaspari warned: "We are on the eve" of starvation...
...unhappy Socialists sought, and could not find, a way to keep up the fagade of three-party unity; they tagged along with Duclos & Co. Their leader, President Felix Gouin, fretted: "The defeat of the Constitution would be dangerous for the interests of the country ... a catastrophe on the eve of the peace conference...
...from Waif. Louis is from New Orleans where, as he puts it, "jazz and I got bora together" (in 1900). When he was 13 he fired his mother's .38 revolver at a New Year's Eve celebration and was sent to a Negro waifs' home. There he learned to play the cornet, and soon was leading an orphans' band through the streets to raise funds for the orphanage (he still sends his old horns to them). In Storyville, New Orleans' red light district, where he hung out, he learned the tricks...
...Like those of Adam & Eve, an arbitrary point, not bestowed by nature...