Word: eves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stranded on the verge of death and disaster. The man who made this movie made it midway in England's most terrible war, within the shadows of Dunkirk. In appearance and in most of what they say, the three soldiers with whom Henry talks on the eve of Agincourt might just as well be soldiers of World War II. No film of that war has yet said what they say so honestly or so well...
INTIMATIONS OF EVE (331 pp.) - Vardis Fisher - Vanguard...
Shucks. In Manhattan, when Actress Eve Arden announced breathlessly that she would model a dress exposing her popliteal fossa, photographers came running, found themselves taking pictures of the back of her knees...
...Paris dressmaking establishment. In no time at all Tilli is a famed dress designer, the toast of Paris and her boss's fiancée. But his rather arm's-length love-making is explained when he tells Tilli that he is incurably impotent. On the eve of their wedding he kills himself...
...astonishing confusion of orders and messages, and differences of opinion at the top which had hamstrung action. (Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau, on the eve of Pearl Harbor, was ready to appease Japan with a $2 billion loan and "most favored nation" status...