Word: affair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Commander Las Heras is still my pal. We have been friends since we attended the naval academy together. This affair has been misinterpreted...
...sees his dreamgirl, a shy debutante, take her mother's box for the first time. By secret assignations they share many a trystful profile, give U. S. audiences ample reason to applaud Danielle Darrieux's Dresden-china features. The young Baroness' mother hears of the affair, packs the girl off to forgetfulness in Trieste, where she pines for her rakish Rudolf, finally returns to him. In the hopeless hideaway of his hunting lodge, their story ends...
...other directors. Nobody was greatly exercised when Premier van Zeeland belatedly admitted that he had accepted bonuses in 1934 and 1935 when he had left active politics and temporarily returned to the bank. But Governor Louis Franck did not have so acceptable an explanation for his part in the affair. It was true that the van Zeeland salary was still on the bank's books, he said, but part of this money had been used for charity and the acquisition of works of art. The remainder the other directors had appropriated as compensation for doing Paul van Zeeland...
...after 1903, Architect Pope worked hard and resourcefully, designed show houses for wealthy people like Ogden Mills. Mrs. Graham Fair Vanderbilt. In 1916 he won the year's award of the Architectural League with his design for the $2,000,000 Scottish Rite Temple in Washington, a massive affair of marble and bronze. In the one architectural movement of his time that was distinctly American-skyscraper building- John Russell Pope took little interest. Neither was he affected by the style variously called Functionalism, Modernism. Internationalism, whose father was Frank Lloyd Wright, whose grandfather was Louis Sullivan. While that style...
Although the love sonnets of Astrophel and Stella were addressed to a beautiful, blonde, black-eyed married woman (daughter of the Earl of Essex), contemporaries were satisfied that Sir Philip Sidney's love-making remained a strictly literary affair. The single criticism ever to touch his reputation on that score came from Queen Elizabeth, who, always furious at the slur to her own magnetism whenever her young men married, acted when "my Philip" married as though he had gone the limit in Elizabethan sensuality...