Word: eves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...foreign editor and the female managing editor of a reasonably LIFE-like picture magazine tour Mexico, Cuba and Brazil, gathering orchid buds where they may for a good-neighborly musical revue. Photographer Phillip Terry, Writer Audrey Long and her fiance (Marc Cramer) sweat out the love interest; Editress Eve Arden is primed with metropolitan wisecracks; Editor Robert Benchley explains the samba, and Ernest Truex adds an eerily funny moment as a mad millionaire who likes to cry hopefully to his guests, "Happyhappy-HAPPY!" In the course of their work the tourists watch a Mexican peasant wedding and several pieces...
...eve of the St. Lô breakthrough, "the Germans could hardly move 25 miles in any direction on any railroad without meeting a block...
Though not claiming to have got everything right, I have historical justification for my guesses as well as my facts: for example, the marriage-night fiasco can be deduced positively from a variety of lesser sources and negatively from the ideal account of Adam and Eve's honeymoon in Paradise Lost...
...King are able to dominate two oceans. There was another reason to which Forrestal paid his respects: "The attitude of the men who have fought and who are still fighting our battles on the sea. . . . No man can stand in the presence of these young men on the eve of battle without a deep humility...
...letter the other day. He wrote it New Year's Eve and he was thinking how it was four years since we'd seen a New Year in together, and he still can't think of anybody he'd rather celebrate with than me. We've been lucky, I suppose, because we know what we've had, and what we want. The trouble with a lot of girls is that they have that awful feeling that their men won't get home. So they touch wood, and just think of what they...