Word: eves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...novel of the same title, the film concerns a young lady (Claudette) who believes that her husband (Welles) was killed in World War I. After a longish period of mourning, she reluctantly remarries. But husband No. 1, by no means dead, continues to live on in Europe. On the eve of World War II, he returns to the U.S. with a foster daughter and strong anti-Nazi sentiments...
...firebrand of Arab anti-Zionism had come home from eight years of exile. Whirling dervishes and fierce-looking Arabs on prancing horses escorted him through the city. Jamal looked older, graver, but seemed to have lost none of his flaming nationalism. The British had brought him back on the eve of the Arab-Jewish showdown. Gratefully, the Arabs welcomed Jamal. Within a few hours of his homecoming the chairman of the Palestine Arab Party, cousin of the still-exiled Grand Mufti, was deep in eager political talks...
...Christmas Eve, 1942, in Berlin. Carpenter Franz Mueller argued the news from Stalingrad with his neighbor, Sign Painter Hubert Knopf...
...year superintendent of Chicago's school system, has been content to take the cash and let the credit go. He has made good money by co-authoring textbooks for Chicago's schools and from his tutoring school for teachers. By changing the requirements on the eve of exams, Johnson ensured passing grades for his students. (Of 155 successful candidates for jobs as principals, 122 were Johnson pupils...
...novel (Book-of-the-Month Club choice for February) is quiet desperation. Most of its characters are émigrés of polyglot nationalities. Its setting is Paris, the sink in which most of them have been stranded before being washed down the drain. The time is the eve of World...