Word: lave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which rain dripped through the leaky roof, was a crude boxlike arena, 12 ft. square, with an old piece of canvas on the floor. A dirty white blanket was spread on an oil drum, to receive the dead body of the loser. A bucket and sponge were ready to lave the winner's wounds...
...celebrated scientists lave written popular books about their own specialties. Anthropologist Earnest Albert Hooton (Up from the Ape) and Astronomer Harlow Shapley (Flights from Chaos) are exceptions. But in general relatively obscure men, journalists with solid scientific backgrounds or university scientists with a flair for journalism have taken the job of making science "understanded of the people." Among such U. S. interpreters of science three men are particularly outstanding...
Married. Evelyn Lave, 34, English actress (Bitter Sweet), divorced wife of English Comedian Sonnie Hale; and Frank Lawton, 30, English actor (Cavalcade, One More River) ; at Yuma, Ariz...
Evensong (Gaumont-British). Adapted from a novel by Beverley Nichols and a play by Nichols and Edward Knoblock, this picture mournfully examines the career of an opera singer (Evelyn Lave).* Irish-born Maggie O'Neill puts aside an Irish sweetheart for art's sake. At the behest of the impresario who launches her, the singer takes the name Irela. After a brilliant command performance in Vienna, she is about to run off with the Archduke Theodore when he learns his cousin Ferdinand has been assassinated in Sarajevo. Theodore marries into his own class. During the War Irela...
...with some hesitancy that this column trudges along the well worn path the attainment of success at Harvard gives impetus for a new effort. At Cambridge obstacles much more difficult than those confronted by Yale University authorities were surmounted, and malt brews for the first time in 106 years lave the parched throats of Harvard diners in hall...