Word: eves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seen at Baker at 10:45 o'clock Wednesday eve frantically reversing the decision were Ernie Banker, Fritz "To a Croat, don't you know" Arsulich an Max Kirschbaum...
...Junior class did an amiable job of putting on a "right fine" dance last Saturday eve. Fellows like Bill Stark and Don Strauss really had a good time...
During New Year's Eve festivities in Havana, somebody told Ripley that Paricutin was for sale. He already had a gilt telephone, an apartment crammed .with hundreds of statuettes, swords, costumes, paintings, vases and two secretaries-one American, one Chinese. But he did not own a volcano. He wanted Paricutin because: 1) as a boy he had always wanted a volcano; 2) it might fill a spiritual void; 3) it might (because of minerals) prove a good investment...
When Zack and his girl stroll through subdued, snowless winter country, the landscape is photographed with an appreciation of the power and subtlety of weather that most U.S. moviemakers seem to lack. When Zack invites his new friends to a New Year's Eve party at the Y, the crowd there is precisely as it should be. So are the decorations and so-a typical Selznick touch-is the sailor, off at the side, solemnly working himself into a lather on the parallel bars. (Other Selznick touches: a stuffy senator asking Zack how the boys overseas are thinking politically...
Kahlil Gibran's mother was the daughter of a Maronite priest.* His father was the son of a wealthy landowner of Lebanon. He was born in Bsherri, a 4,000-year-old village high in the Lebanon Mountains, on Jan. 6, 1883. On Christmas Eve every human being in the village walked through the snow to church, carrying a lighted lantern. At midnight the bells began, and children and old men sang an ancient Galilean chant. They spoke in Aramaic, the language of Jesus. Kahlil said later that on three different occasions he had seen...