Word: affair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unfulfilled longings of a love-starved World." In Lancaster, Ohio last week the Eagle-Gazette announced that it will never again refer in print to the King & Mrs. Simpson unless: 1) they "elope"; 2) King Edward permits himself to be "directly quoted" on Mrs. Simpson; 3) the affair gives rise, as the horrified Eagle-Gazette fears it may, to "a Continental revolution...
Still Life, a compassionate study of two middle-aged lovers who begin and end their hopeless affair in a station restaurant...
...best-selling British Agent, Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart told of the high-pressure diplomatic and love affairs that marked his days in the British Embassy in revolutionary Russia. In its sequel, Retreat From Glory, he described his post-War disillusionment, a long-drawn-out affair involving debts and dissipations in the Balkans, that left him looking dolefully on the modern world and suffering from an understandable fatigue. Readers of those two books who have come to expect from Bruce Lockhart well-bred accounts of international intrigue are likely to be disappointed with Return to Malaya. It is a record...
There in his early twenties he had worked on an uncle's rubber plantation and enjoyed a love affair with a high-spirited Malay girl named Amai. Always a great one for going on pilgrimages, pondering on every historic birthplace and battlefield within reach of his far travels, Lockhart was on a pilgrimage to the birthplace of Pierre Loti when he decided to find out what had happened to Amai, as well as take a rest from journalism...
Yesterday Mrs. Simpson traveled to Versailles in the King's car and stayed with her American friend Lady Mendl. Oxford, always conservative, thinks the whole affair is a bad show but does not reproach the King. The general comment is "Ship Mrs. Simpson back home...