Word: affair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...George v.L. Meyer, Jr. heads the list of patronesses for the affair, the third of its kind during the year before the Jubilee...
...reporters asked him about the Moses case! All he could do in his defence was re-assert again and again his boredom about the whole matter. Then finally having been released from carrying through such an impossible and unjust action, he must make silly, hypocritical excuses for the whole affair, and let the world despise him more. Let us hope that he refinds his strength in worshipping the cause of his troubles. Let him take consolation in the superb whiteness and broadness of soul, the great and intelligent detachment, which his hero-master has displayed throughout...
Questioned as to the truth of the affair, the Yard warriors vaingloriously admitted complete responsibility for the conquest, but Mr. Hoeing, gallant as always, declined to contradict their statements. "I understand it was a stirring struggle" was all this unsung hero could be persuaded...
...writer who deals in facts, Author Feuchtwanger polishes his wares until they seem as valuable and glittering as new-minted coin. Title-story in this book is a compressed novelet (it covers 35 years in 29 pages) of the love affair between Warren Hastings, ruler of India, and a little German hausfrau. Others: the fatally successful altitude flight of a French airman; a bullfight seen through a German painter's eyes; an aging poet catches his death of cold in trying to show off before a hen-brained girl...
...feature on the program, "Enter Madame," Elissa Landi is starred as the temperamental opera singer in a rather uninteresting plot. It's the old story of career versus love affair, in which Cary Grant, her husband, finally tires of the hysterical eccentricity of his artist wife. Everything turns out happily in the end, of course, when the wife discovers the cause of the trouble and forestalls a divorce though a change of attitude...