Word: affair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Leverett-Eliot game was a drab affair, neither team being able to get its offense functioning. Eliot had the heavier team but the scrappiness of the Leverett eleven held them in cheek...
...though the lily needed gilding, Mr. Roosevelt saw fit to send to the Tague inauguration a "beautiful floral piece." Pretty sentiment, indeed, but unfortunately this reminds us that the Post Office Department is a Federal affair under the jurisdiction of the President, and that throughout Mr. Roosevelt's choppy career, he has been making speeches, as he alone knows how, about the corruption of the Civil Service under the incredibly dishonest Republican Regime. Sincerity, as the President himself so neatly put it, must be proved by deed as well as by word...
Added Le Journal des Débats, "In reality this is a struggle between Italy and England" but "England, with much force and cleverness, has transformed the entire affair into a conflict between Italy and the League of Nations...
...Nature, of which Robinson Crusoe is the masterpiece. But at this point Mrs. Rawlings introduces Richard Tordell, late of Tordell Manor, an embittered gentleman who fulfills all the requirements of the stage Englishman except that of dressing for dinner. With him she introduces a dull melodrama revolving around his affair with Allie, now grown to womanhood, Luke's anger, a marriage and two convenient deaths which clear the way for the Englishman's choosing a woman more suited to him and for his complete regeneration under the beneficent influence of the wilderness...
...apparently remained up to the present time. In the Springfield game itself Don Jackson, a defensive giant and potentially very fine running and passing performer, was permanently lost by reason of a broken collar bone. Moseley and Lane were also injured. Lane is unquestionably out of this afternoon's affair; Moseley is doubtful...