Word: affair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...come up for the week-end were staying, three chaperones tried to keep track of what was happening. The campus was decorated with statues made of ice and snowmen twelve feet high. The first night of the Carnival, the Outing Club gave its pageant-"Jottunheimer Eiskorneval"-a preposterous affair about Norwegian snow gods and a fancy-skating maiden. A committee chose Pauline Webster of Detroit, a pretty blonde girl who works on the Detroit News, Queen of the Snows, but no one could find the silver cup on which the Queen's name is annually engraved. A freshman, Richard...
...Territory of Hawaii, was $1. A ringside table at the Colony Club celebration in Tampa cost $250. A feature of the holiday at Mt. Carmel, Ill. was a contest to decide who was the town's most unpopular citizen. A triple wedding was solemnized at the Monroe, Wis. affair...
...replying affirmatively to the question "Do you take this woman (or man) whose right hand you hold, to be your lawful wedded wife (or husband)?" This ceremony was denounced by Rev. Philip Yarrow, civic relations chairman of the Church Federation, as "a semi-racket, a hit & run affair." Said he: "They get a certificate with the big words 'Holy Matrimony,' but there's nothing holy about it. It's just a cold legal ceremony. And the county charges $5 for that. There are a lot of us ministers who'd like a few marriages...
Another aspect of this fable of many facets is that beauty and comedy and tragedy remain in life, even in the midst of apocalyptic happenings. As the fated people move on past the Urals, the love affair of Raoul Perez, Royalist son of the Paris banker, also moves on to a happy consummation with Leah, daughter of an orthodox rabbi. An old woman dies. Sonia, an infant violinist, insists upon her artistic kinship with Menuhin. Scientists squabble about their laboratory problems. The Passover is celebrated. Mr. Alberg, the Communist, predicts that blood will flow in the Gobi as the brotherhood...
...ELAGHIN AFFAIR AND OTHER STORIES-Ivan Bunin-'Knopf ($2.50). The Nobel Prize winner digs into his trunk for a new collection of short stories. Some of them go back...