Word: affair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...editors of Punch, meanwhile, came out with what was intended to be a side-splitting full-page article calculated to impress the English mind with a notion that Czechoslovakia is a funny name, that even the fate of Czechoslovakia is not far from an affair for English mirth, and that as for an Englishman taking up arms to fight for Czechoslovakia-well that, implies Punch, is a simply hilarious idea...
Even after Solange has been introduced, and her love affair is approaching a climax, de Montherlant stops the story to write a leisurely essay on happiness. Men, he says, have a negative conception of happiness. But "a woman will say to you that she is happy as she will say to you that she is warm or cold. 'What are you thinking?' 'That I am happy.' ... A woman who is happy and loved (and who loves) asks for nothing more. A man who loves and is loved needs something else as well. . . . Man seldom feels anything...
...details of the whole extraordinary story. He and Gray had taken Ross first to a wooden dugout near Emily, Wis., where they kept their aged victim manacled for 13 chill autumn days, then to Spooner. By this time, the jurors gathered from the defendant's story, the affair had taken on the atmosphere of a camping trip in which his principal concern had been the comfort and convenience of the captive. Trouble between Seadlund and his less considerate accomplice apparently developed on this score. When Seadlund went to get gasoline for their car from a cache in the woods...
...students were approached in the Yard and are understood to be mostly Freshmen. An investigation of the affair will be conducted by the police, it was revealed...
...shrinking, 15-year-old Laurent Pasquier discovers that his father is keeping a woman, calls on her to ask that she give up the old man. When he is tricked by both the mistress and his father, Laurent denounces him, is dumfounded to learn that everybody knows about this affair and many others besides. The oldest boy, Joseph, escapes the family by turning himself into a money-making machine; the dull and stupid Ferdinand marries a girl as secretive as himself; Daughter Cécile becomes a concert pianist, admired by Debussy, loved by a composer whose music...