Word: affair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...empty than usual last week was the plain fact that neither had a bona fide candidate for Mayor of New York. No one knew better than Chairman Simpson that his election alliance with independent little Republican-Progressive-New Dealer Fiorello H. LaGuardia and his Fusion Party was strictly an affair of convenience. No happier was Tammany, which, having provoked a revolt among Democrats outside Manhattan by running fumbling anti-New Deal Senator Royal S. Copeland in both the Republican and Democratic primaries, had almost as little stake in clean-cut but colorless Democratic Candidate Jeremiah T. Mahoney...
...death wound. Most readers will agree that Caley in his bedazzled guilelessness, his dumb trustingness, is basically well conceived. It is in the development of the story that things go astray, and it is the author's wavering method of attack that causes the trouble. A love affair that starts hard-boiled ("Aw, come on. Give me a break. . . . We all get pushed around.") goes suddenly opalescent. (". . . A part of me that is still hard and stiff is broken and everything comes flowing in light and warm. See what I mean?'') Characters, sharply delineated at first, develop...
...This affair takes the place of the tea dance formerly held after the Yale game but now felt to be uneconomical in view of competition with other Harvard dances on that date...
Claude Hopkins and his orchestra will play at a formal dance in Dunster House on the eve of the Yale game. Refreshments will be served at the affair, which is scheduled to last from 10 until 3 o'clock...
...proctors, advisers, deans, and others responsible for Freshman well-being gathered to discuss the administration of Yard matters. The gathering was summoned by head proctors Robert Amory, Jr. '35, 3L. Rodman W. Paul '36, assistant dean, and Stephen H. Stackpole '33, secretary of the President. Stackpole presided at the affair...