Word: affair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flaming headlines, the Tokyo Press limited all descriptions of the fighting in Chahar to the barest of brief dispatches. Nanking, instead of screaming in the customary Chinese manner about the Rape of Chahar, sent out unofficial bulletins to announce that the entire "border dispute" was a "local affair," that peace had been restored, that there was nothing to worry about...
...down to a stripling of thirteen a whom pirates are still compositions. When his oldest daughter being to quiz him on the sex life of the ear be has brought as a gift, the father begins to suspect something amiss. When he finds his oldest son engaged in an affair with a mercenary Portuguese wench, and his two youngest offspring engaging in heated discussion of Freudian neuroses, he is sure there is something amiss. When he meets the young professor he finds out what...
...body of bandits, confiscating property, but an existing government, carrying out new theories of insurance. If the Russian people, under their Soviet form of government, determined to abolish all private insurance for their citizens and establish a system of social protection by the state, that was their affair, not ours...
Sponsored for the first time by local dealers, the 35th annual New York Automobile Show was, for the first time in years, a dignified affair. The crowd went in larger numbers than ever before. Private hotel shows were banned by mutual agreement. In some 200 forms they saw the burnished, bulbous, gleaming thing of beauty that is a modern...
...Their affair reaches a physical climax at times, an emotional climax every day. When Alec shows signs of taking the thing too seriously, and makes a practice of going to bed with a bottle, his father steps in, cuts off his allowance. Faced with a thoroughly frightening economic reality he comes to heel like the well-brought-up son of his mother that he is, drops Julie like an old bone. Author Breuer's intention was not tendentious, but Memory of Love does better as a tract on snobbery than as a tragedy of souls...