Word: affair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good for the cause will be gained by marching around displaying placards or shouting anathemas against war, especially in such a conservative stronghold as Harvard. Constructive action in the form of cultivating intelligent thinking will do more than flinging curses at Mars before a mob who enjoys the whole affair as splendid entertainment. (For if a cause is allowed to be ridiculed, it can never hope to inspire confidence...
...choice of aids is a function of the Chief Marshal and, since Hanfstaengel was a friend of mine in college, it was natural that I should choose him as one of the fifty aids. Moreover, I felt that, the alumni exercises being a strictly intimate Harvard family affair, any alumnus should be welcomed back. The very fact that it happened to be a university alumni gathering made it even more certain that one could entertain people of varying beliefs, for freedom of thought and speech is the breath of life of a real university. I regret that Hanfstaengel finds...
...hove not seen "Forty-Second Street," "Gold-Diggers of 1933", or "Footlight Parade", you will enjoy the long, elaborate dance numbers, interpolated gags, and songs of "Wonder Bar". The plot, which is, of course, unimportant, includes an affair, a stabbing, a suicide, and a happy ending...
...field of Mechanical Engineering the inferior quality of the equipment in the McKay laboratory is minimized on the supposition that in this department the emphasis is laid on the fundamental laws of engineering. The authorities declare that it makes no difference whether the engine is an antique steam affair or the latest turbine, because the laws of steam do not change. These two concepts, one theoretical and the other practical, can hardly be reconciled. If the Engineering School is to teach the fundamentals of metallurgy there is no need for investigating the latest device for molding guns...
...Even a child would know that the affair was not handled normally from its beginning in December. . . . You ask if I think the Stavisky case might involve only simple negligence? Messieurs, you cannot be naïve after 20 years in the Sûreté. . . . In the organization of the police, the most compromised employes are those enjoying the most favors...