Word: affair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York Roma Daily News: "His woman habits were, at least until the Simpson affair, promiscuous. He violated the homes of at least four of his subjects who up to that time had thought themselves his friends. He also had numerous fugitive amatory incidents with all sorts of people...
...person and by proxy the stockholders of an unusual U. S. investment trust assembled last week in Jersey City, there solemnly voted their corporation out of business. The trust was no down-at-the-heel affair with a sorry or unsavory history. It was Mayflower Association, Inc. with assets of some $19000,000 and one of the best records in the field. Its stock was launched on the full crest of the 1929 boom at $60 per share. Its liquidating value today is more than $77, after past distributions of some $27 in cash and stock...
...Mathilda Wesendonck (Eva Le Gallienne), with the Schnorrs (Arthur Gerry and Beal Hober) singing his scores and Cosima Liszt von Bulow (Miriam Battista) fluttering about in round-eyed adulation. Minna - jealous, nagging, nerve-fraying epitome of an artist's devoted wife - translates her dislike of the Wesendonck affair into criticism of Tristan: "Nothing happens in it from beginning to end, just two people bleating and bleating about how much they love each other." She intercepts a love letter, stirs up a series of rumpuses, and Mine Wesendonck agrees to flee with the musician. At the moment of her capitulation...
...play is an annual affair; last year "Monsieur de Pourceaugnac," by Moliere, was given before an audience of 400 in Lowell House...
...events, the falling of the curtain found the United States victor in its internecine war and still in friendly relations with Great Britain. Most of the issues of that day,--neutral rights, the Alabama Affair, the fishery controversy, the Fenian Brotherhood, expatriation and naturalization,--had been forgotten when in 1896 William Ewart Gladstone published his confessions...