Word: affair
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...funds. Why cannot Robert, the cat, eat the scraps from the janitor's table and save the common people all this vast expenditure? cry the city fathers. The Mayor has ordered a "sweeping investigation," a "drastic inquiry" into this barefaced attempt to pick the public's pocket. Altogether the affair is pictured as the most scandalous thing since the Tweed Ring...
...prize of $500 was open to any student, past or present of English 47 or 47a at Harvard or Radcliffe, and was won by Miss Rachel Barton Butler, a member of Professor Baker's course from 1915 to 1917. Her play was a comedy entitled, "Mamma's Affair...
...production of "Mamma's Affair" will begin about January 1 at the Little Theatre, New York City and the cast will include many stars...
Miss Butler was a member of Professor G. P. Baker's course in play-writing as a Radcliffe student in 1915, 1916 and 1917. The play which she submitted and which has won the prize is a comedy entitled "Mamma's Affair...
...Morosco will retain the other plays submitted in the competition for about 10 days more, because he is considering three or four in addition to "Mamma's Affair" for production...