Word: eves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite all this, and more holiday wonders to come, Bess Truman and daughter Mary Margaret had already left Washington for home in Independence, Mo. Harry Truman, too, would fly there on the morning of the 25th, after lighting the tree and addressing the nation by radio on Christmas Eve. In Independence, he would spend most of his first Presidential Christmas as he has done for decades-eating three big dinners: one each with his 93-year-old mother, his mother-in-law, Mrs. David W. Wallace, 83; and his aunt, Mrs. Margaret Truman Noland, 96. But the President would...
...eve of the Big Three meeting, the uninvited Big Fourth somewhat grandly-and frostily-proclaimed a policy of her own. Said President Charles de Gaulle in a broadcast to his nation...
...eve of India's ponderous election campaign (the provincial elections will continue for four or five months), Lord Wavell spoke his mind on the mounting spirit of violence. Said he emphatically: India's political problem "cannot and will not be resolved by violence. . . . No solution will be satisfactory that would result in chaos, bloodshed...
...hideous, disgraced, monstrous dropped from Dr. Holmes's lingual superbomber, would make us all want to crawl into holes and pull the hole in after us.... It is just as well, perhaps, that only God was present, with no help from ministers and theorists, when Adam and Eve in Eden started out to propagate the human race. The good men would have objected on the ground that sin and shame would be sure to follow, but God let nature take its course. Wars are not fought on the basis of ethics and religion. If this were so, there would...
...eve of World War II, Gordon N. Ray, a young Thackeray enthusiast, traveled to England on a money grant from Harvard University and, somewhat to his surprise, induced Mrs. Fuller to let him carry off the horde. She also turned over to him heaps of Thackeray material that she had been amassing for years. Harvard promptly pressed another money grant on lucky Editor Ray. The Guggenheim Foundation sped him a fat check. Libraries, museums, private collectors deluged him with additional material. Last month from the Harvard University Press dropped The Letters and Private Papers of William Makepeace Thackeray, two volumes...