Word: eves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Worldly, amorous, 56-year-old Publisher Reither is the principal character in Czech-born F. C. Weiskopf's novel about Prague on the eve of World War I. When Reither came home from parting with Minnow, he found his household just the way it always was. His sister, the Honorable Caroline von Wrbata-Treuenfels, was coldly examining a roast goose's wingbone through her lorgnette. Son Max Egon was at work on his great essay: Life, a Disease of Our Planet. Son-in-law Dr. Rankl, who looked like "a set of false teeth," was sipping coffee with...
Proposal. Before these three were named came a week of rapid-fire action. The Communists, whose military position in northern China was rapidly worsening, had urged an "unconditional, immediate and nationwide" truce. On New Year's Eve, the Government countered with a three-point plan: 1) "all hostilities within the country shall cease and railway communications shall be restored"; 2)-General Marshall should be consulted by a representative of the Government and a representative of the Communists; 3) an impartial commission should investigate conditions in the civil-war zone...
...Year's Eve program the Berlin City Opera included selections from Johann Strauss's frothy Fledermaus. Orchestra and vocalists, whirling through the three-quarter-time Second Finale, finally reached the lines...
Most nights, Bob Gross is in bed by 10 (even on New Year's Eve he turned in by then), but not to sleep. Tortured by insomnia, he seldom sleeps more than a few hours a night. He used to try to read himself to sleep with mystery stories. But he had to give that up because his eyes have become weak and he is too vain to wear glasses. When the insomnia is particularly bad he gets up, dresses and spends the night walking the streets and up & down the hills of Bel Air mulling over business problems...
...state as the rest of England. The chapel was closed. Lady Marchmain was dead. Lord Brideshead was married to the widow of an admiral who had also collected matchboxes. Charming Sebastian had wound up as sottish handyman to a kindly abbot in a Spanish monastery. And on the eve of World War II, wicked old Lord Marchmain himself came home to England to die. Propped up in a massive Renaissance bed, his Italian mistress and an oxygen cylinder beside him, he rambled in & out of delirium...