Word: affair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unfortunately I could not get an autopsy on my case so I cannot say exactly the amount of internal damage that was done, and one of the reasons why I could not get an autopsy was because the whole affair was regarded as a "prank" rather than an "assault...
...size up the situation. Finally she senses that she is up against something that means a fight to the end for all she holds dear. But when she is on a two-week cruise, her innocent husband, Charles, who never ceases to admire Nicholas, succumbs to a wholly insignificant affair with a flower girl. Nicholas learns of this aberration, wields his new weapon with devastating effect...
...Miss Kitty are looking forward to the summer, as is Fred Bratton who works for Mr. Leverett, owner of "The Poplars," and whose wife is expecting her twelfth. There is the old sculptor, Stirling, always welcome. It looks like a good summer among friends. Nor would Rita Woodruff's affair with the Polish boy who sings weird songs, or the youthful infatuation of Judith Crawford for Bill Woodruff (aged 46), upset the usual harmony. But there is a newcomer, Mrs. Fernanda Milbank, who leases "The Poplars" and arrives with her spoiled, affected, unhappy little daughter, Geraldine...
...Lens, near Lille, France another case of metamorphosed hermaphroditism came to light last week. The affair began last Christmas when the parish priest noticed that Alice Henriette Acces, 16, member of the girls' choir, had imperceptibly changed from hoyden to boor. Henriette had a thin mustache. Her voice was mannish. And, were she dressed in boy's clothes, she would be indistinguishable from the bantlings of the mine where her father worked...
...Augustus St. Gaudens' heroic General Sherman on horseback, on the other side of 59th Street. When everything was completed in 1915 and water began to flow into a series of Kentucky limestone basins. General Sherman found himself headed straight for the Lady of the Plaza. For years their affair across 59th Street was the talk of the town...