Word: affair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...right to study freely in a land of such great scientific and cultural traditions as Germany and to be allowed to widen their scope in this way. Moreover, the Harvard Club of Berlin--which is a union of former Harvard students--will busy itself next Friday with this affair...
...Jesse Lasky has a flair for surface values and that Loretta Young, when she can control the wobblings of her lower lip, is an actress as skillful and sensitive as she is presentable. The best moments in The White Parade are those in which she is conducting a love affair with a Boston polo player (John Boles), which begins as a joke and ends in what most cinemaddicts are likely to mistake for tragedy. Good shot: Jane Darwell, as a gruff head nurse, persuading her superior not to oust Loretta two weeks before graduation...
...entertainment than most of its kind, Say When presents no innovations but several elaborations on the hoary old pattern of musical comedy. There are two pairs of lovers-a vaudeville team which has met a couple of female bluebloods from Long Island on a boat. There is also the affair of a smuggled ring and a liaison between the girls' father and a theatrical baggage. Jack McGowan, master of the "situation gag" rather than the outright nifty, has written a book whose wheezes wilt on paper...
...that distracted Provost Moore tossed the whole affair up to his highly embarrassed superior, President Sproul. Last week President Sproul arrived grim-faced in Los Angeles to begin a thoroughgoing investigation. Said he: "I want to get at the underlying truth of the entire question, which at present is not altogether clear...
...Whitney for the present, but the court means eventually to turn her over to Mrs. Vanderbilt, as soon as the latter has arranged to provide a life in which she will be "assured of happiness." Justice Carew, ostensibly not at all anxious to terminate his connection with the notorious affair, will say when...