Word: affair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hold the easy pickings of bootlegging, the U. S. underworld went to war. It was an internecine affair of ambush and the double cross. Along Jersey highways from the shore, where rum runners landed their cargoes, runners and highjackers fought it out in the night. In New York City, men were shot discreetly in basement saloons. In Detroit and St. Louis, guns banged on street corners, men died at high noon...
...dance committee consisting of the following men has been appointed to help the Union Committee in arranging the affair: Winslow H. Ayer, Henry H. Dearing, Morris Gray, Henry Richard, Jr., and Robert P. Ulin...
...choice of women. Instead of making up to the rather plain, high-cheek-boned Grand Duchess Olga, he took a fancy to the prettier and more vivacious Grand Duchess Tatiana, the Tsar's second oldest daughter. Since this was not on the schedule, the matchmakers called the whole affair off, and His Imperial Majesty at length showed his distaste not only for Carol but for the entire Rumanian royal family by coining one of his very rare epigrams: "Rumania, bah! It is neither a State nor a nation, but a profession...
...last week, however, the Pimlico Special (a weight-for-age affair at a mile-and-three-sixteenths for three-year-olds and up) was recognized as the annual post-season race that determines the U. S. thoroughbred champion. Some 25,000 turf fans crammed into Pimlico's mid-Victorian stands to see if this year's Special would be as dramatic as the first two.† Contenders for the title were William L. Brann's three-year-old Challedon, Charles S. Howard's four-year-old Kayak II and Townsend B. Martin's four-year...
...clear conclusion to which this reviewer came was that Harvard's war is both more clear-cut in its aims and more vigorously conducted than the odd affair which is languishing on the Western front...