Word: affair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only son, who has worked with his father since leaving Harvard in 1926. Mr. Klein's only son, Horace Dudley Klein, is in charge of market research for The Farmer. Fathers Harmon and Klein remain in control and the whole thing is pretty much a family affair. Of the 700 employes who work in the red-brick buildings which ramble over a St. Paul city block, one out of ten owns stock in the company...
...film is weak. There are glimpses of the Polish desire for independence, of the growth of Napoleon's empire, and of the great retreat from Russia, but little attempt is made to tie these strands together or to indicate their relation to the major theme. Moreover, the love affair itself is not logically treated; it is, for instance, quire impossible to believe that the Countess could hate napoleon in one moment and love him in the next simply because in the meantime he had delivered a noble address on liberty and democracy. Nevertheless, its excellent acting saves "Conquest" and raises...
...Star Over China contains a brief, complicated but convincing account of the Sian Mutiny. Last week a detailed study of this affair was published by Snow's sub-correspondent James Bertram (FIRST ACT IN CHINA, Viking, $3) which gives a sympathetic portrait of The Young Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang. captor of Chiang Kaishek...
...available only to a specified few. Only once a year is there a party in the true "college" sense--the Freshman Jubilee, late in May. It is the great Freshman Class dance. Since Freshman classes now number about 1,000 each year, the Jubilee is always a huge, sprawling affair with two orchestras, usually given in a huge, sprawling building, the Union, near the Yard. (Bear in mind that Harvard has a Yard, not a campus. All within hearing will screech if you call it a campus...
Because the prince had appropriated his champion fighting cock and put out his brother's eyes for having an affair with a harem woman, Peasant Pak lies low during the fighting, wastes no time mourning his jasmine-scented leader. Realist Pak's patriotism is concentrated on his rice fields and chickens, his exciting second wife and his own neck...