Word: affair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Governor McMullen and Senator Hughes of Delaware came to see the ceremony when Judge Joseph Buffington, at 81 the oldest man on the Federal bench, inducted Youngster Biggs. The affair could not have been more amiable. In the first place Judge Buffington is no gaffer. He still keeps a medicine ball in his chambers which he delights to jam into the abdomens of elderly colleagues. He was married to his third wife only six years ago and still likes to go occasionally to a night club. Moreover, he remembers that he also got his start in politics at a convention...
This lunch was by no means "diplomatic." It was instead an affair of the earthy type of Big Reds who are fist-deep in Russia's toughest problems and rather scorn the Soviet Foreign Commissar, "Maxie" Litvinoff, and his English wife Ivy. Later Ambassador Davies was feted at the Litvinoff dacha and had plenty of chance to see that these country places, plus the official limousines and luxuries of their owners, make the nominally small salaries of J. Stalin & Friends of no real importance, set them definitely off from Russia's masses as Mr. & Mrs. Davies...
...provide additional friendly contacts for the men, P.B.H. will hold a tea and a reception on Sunday. Movies and entertainment by a College group will finish the afternoon's affair...
...during a White air raid on Valencia that a Red anti-aircraft shell landed squarely on the quarterdeck of the British battleship Royal Oak, injuring four officers and a seaman. Not wishing to stir up pro-Valencian British Laborites, the British Admiralty made light of the whole affair. Declared an Admiralty official: "We might reproach the Loyalists for the awkward aiming of an anti-aircraft shell, but there is no question of malice. It was more or less...
...Last week, two lightweights, neither of whom had any claim to the championship of the class, fought 15 rounds in New York's Madison Square Garden. When they finished, the most sophisticated fight crowd of the season agreed that, judged according to the bloody esthetics of pugilism, the affair deserved a niche among ring classics...