Word: affair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Results of Mrs. Smith's publicity campaign were ironic. She found that before she took charge of the school, riots had been a routine affair. During her regime they became less frequent but because of the White House party and because Congress had appropriated $100,000 for improvements, anything that happened in the National Training School for Girls was newsworthy. Last summer, a controversy between white and colored inmates as to whether Joe Louis was a better boxer than Jimmy Braddock started a free-for-all fight. Month ago, a fire alarm set off to increase the excitement...
Conquest (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). For several years Greta Garbo has been toying with the notion of doing a screen play based on the love affair between Napoleon Bonaparte and Marie Countess Walewska of Poland. The notion was in the Hollywood tradition, for most producers like royal historical episodes for an important star. They give the star dignity. If dignity is its purpose, Conquest admirably succeeds. It moves with the fateful and august tread of history itself. Its huge, expensive panorama (running time: 2½ hours, cost: $2,000,000) embraces a quarter of a century and three-quarters of Europe...
Bringing to a head the need for some more formal method of inter-House cooperation than has existed in the past, the current Leverett House Dance incident points the way for a definite revamping of the means of handling inter-House affairs. For the Leverett House Dance Committee, simply because of a misunderstanding of an agreement with the heads of the other House Committees, attempted to call off their projected Army Game party, incurring a loss in the interests of better cooperation between the Houses, and then found that no real agreement existed and that it could hold the affair...
Duke Oliver and his band will play for Kirkland House's first dance of the year on Saturday evening after the Yale game. The affair will be a dinner dance and will start at 6:30 o'clock. Formal dress is optional, and Yale as well as Harvard students are invited...
...writing is simple, alternately shifting from a debt-ridden Kentucky tobacco planter to his white sharecroppers to his daughter Letty's decadent Southern urban life. Still another shift centres more than a third of the story on a Yankee diaper heiress' frustrated Southern husband, who has an affair with the tobacco planter's daughter. To readers who may complain at the chaotic literary result of these shifts, Author Gordon's story argues that it is nothing compared to the living chaos of Southern life since the invasion of the North...