Word: affair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decided whether ter make it a stag affair or not. I ain't talked thet part over with my wife yet. But the chances is it won't be stag. (I went to one of them stag affairs at one of the clubs in our town one night and my wife heard about it. Since thet time she ain't had no use fer stags or ennything thet'd make yer stagger...
...friends. The guards were to hurl him from the plane over Leftist Spam. At Munich, next stop, Putzy managed to slip away, took 17 hours to escape to the Swiss frontier. Shortly after he reached Zurich he was invited by the Government to return to Germany "because the whole affair was a practical joke...
...weekend cruise with Secretary Ickes, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Josephine Roche, Theodore F. Green, erudite freshman Senator from Rhode Island, and Governor Murphy, Franklin Roosevelt sailed down to Quantico, Va., where he attended to one international affair by broadcasting to France on the occasion of the dedication of the A. E. F.'s war memorials. Thereafter he returned to Washington hoping he would not have to attend to another international affair, the war in China. Attending to it would mean recognizing that war exists within the meaning of the Neutrality Act, and he and Secretary Hull had resolutely...
...memoriam dinners were last week given in Washington. At one, 15 freshmen Senators who had supported the President's Court Bill, at least till near the last, mourned with the new Democratic leader, Senator Barkley. At the other, a happier affair, the Court Bill's opponents including Senators Wheeler, Burke, Mc-Carran, Clark, celebrated with famed Attorney Frank Hogan and Woodrow Wilson's one man brain trust, Joseph P. Tumulty. This second group of Senators celebrated not only the passing of the Old Court Bill but the birth of the New Court Bill whose swift enactment...
...official Japanese Foreign Office press spokesmen said flatly that Chinese were expected to organize spontaneously North China along much the lines of Manchukuo and that Japan of course could not and would not interfere in this "domestic Chinese affair...