Word: affair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wish to speak of an affair the size of which, both in the money spent and the origin of the arms seized, represents terrible gravity...
...British parents of Ludwig's fiancee, disappointed at one postponement of the wedding seven weeks ago when the old Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig died at his family home in Darmstadt, Germany, withdrew arrangements for a fashionable wedding but next day pushed through a private, hushed affair. With bridal costumes hurriedly changed to sombre black, the ceremony was performed before 50 sombre guests in London's swank St. Peter's Church, Eaton Square...
...Yale game tickets went on public sale. The Harvard-Yale game ceased to be a family affair. A person could no longer be sure that the person who was sitting next to him could safely be talked with. It might be that he would be a member of the lower classes. And that ended the gilded period...
Yesterday's practice session was the usual play-polishing affair, with the final check-up on those special Yale touchdown plays being attended to by the coaching staff. Bobby Green's condition is almost in top shape now, and he is expected to see a whole let of service, starting with the opening kickoff...
Lowell House will present a Harvard-Yale dinner dance tomorrow evening. The affair will be informal, open from 6:30 to 12 o'clock. Mal Hallett and his orchestra will furnish the music...