Word: affair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hole Eggs Sirs: Now, sir, will you have your mysteries-with eggs or without them? That Switz spying affair seems to be hard enough for those French gendarmes to unravel, but now-well, let us see what TIME has brought. ". . . Scotland Yard carefully examined the Chelsea, London flat in which the Switzes lived for many months. There they found a new touch of mystery-dozens & dozens of eggshells, carefully blown, with a neat hole in end of each." (TIME, April 2, p. 16.) Now there is a mystery that will make those French Johnnies sit back, take their hats...
...Judge Prince came to me and said, 'I want to see that man Pressard. I know too much about the Stavisky affair and others.' Afterwards he said to me with profound emotion, 'I have just freed my conscience.' He had without knowing it signed his own death warrant...
Paralleling the Stavisky-rooted murder of Albert Prince, the great Caillaux-Calmette affair grew from Rochette roots. Because Editor Gaston Calmette of Le Figaro waged a bitter campaign against Joseph Caillaux, Minister of Finance, largely for his alleged part in the Rochette scandal, Mme Caillaux walked into Figaro's office and shot Editor Calmette dead...
President Lowell will be the guest speaker at the Winthrop House annual Senior Dinner, which will be held on Thursday in the Junior Common Room at 7 o'clock. The dinner is a formal affair, but will not supplant the regular House dinner, which will be held in the Dining Room at the regular time. John M. Lockwood '34, chairman of the House Committee, will preside. It is expected that Dr. Lowell's talk will be strictly informal...
...many paradoxes which stem from indiscriminate use of that word of words, Patriotism. Their alienation from the spirit and even many of the principles of the Founding Fathers is without parallel in the history of revolutions. A hundred years after England's Revolution in 1689, which was an affair of the same type, although more decorous than ours of '76, there existed in London a Society of the Revolution, sons of Whig stalwarts. It was the program of this society, however, to bring the French Revolution to England...