Word: affair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...then proceeded to spend $7,500,000 combatting fiery Joseph Pulitzer's World on its own ground. He boldly bought away Pulitzer's ablest men, including Arthur Brisbane and Morrill Goddard, the genius who gave him the American Weekly. He made the Spanish-American War his personal affair for the Journal'?, sake. The transition of the old Journal into the American, effected in three steps between 1901 and 1903, followed an excess of boldness which nearly earned Hearst the blame for President McKinley's assassination...
...from a holiday crowd sprinkled with women & children, having packed off to the automobile races in Indianapolis. Except for the two or three times he stopped to shift lenses for closeup or wide-angle shots, Cameraman Lippert kept his eye glued to his view finder throughout the whole bloody affair...
...Communist reporter for the Communist Daily Worker who covered the story of the attack by Ford service men on Frankensteen, Reuther and others, let me congratulate you on the fairly decent account of the affair in the June 7 issue of TIME...
Largely attended by oldsters, last week's Modern Woodmen convention at Chicago's Stevens Hotel was a colorless affair where little was done but review finances, re-elect the man who has headed the order since 1903-Adolphus Robert Talbot. Big-featured President Talbot is a 78-year-old lawyer who was once the partner of William Jennings Bryan. A strait-laced Methodist, he does not smoke, drink, chew or play cards. Having fathered two daughters and a son, he lives with his wife in Lincoln, Neb., likes to putter with flowers. His chief boast: neither the Modern...
...have liked assisting those who tried to make a comeback, and the Russian people are certainly trying to do that very thing. As to their form of government, just as any other American, I am somewhat curious, but try to be discreet since I feel it is their own affair...