Word: affair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Unlike Occidental voters, under the new constitution Indians must qualify for the franchise by satisfying elaborater education and property ownership requirements. Composition of the Federal Legislature, partially appointed by Viceroy and Princes, partially indirectly elected from the provinces, is likewise a complicated affair. Its seats are constitutionally apportioned among fixed numbers of Hindus (including the "depressed" classes), Moslems Britons, Indian Christians, Sikhs, Anglo-Indians, representatives of Landholders, Commerce & Industry, Labor, Woman...
...Address You Privately, and in general written of tempestuous artistic spirits who have a weakness for flowery language. Last week she offered U. S. readers a novel cut in the same pattern as her previous works but dealing with an Austrian doctor and an American girl whose love affair was entangled in the affairs of the Austrian Nazis...
...love affair of Dr. Prochaska and Pendennis involves much political talk, a skiing trip on which they light fiery crosses and evade the authorities, a night in a mountain cabin where the doctor ministers to a sick child, the bombing of a news paper office. Their idyll ends somewhat inconclusively with the assassination of Chancellor Dollfuss. Having left the doctor suddenly, become mixed up in homosexual circles in Vienna, Pendennis realizes that he will need her when she hears of the failure of the Nazi putsch, starts back for Feldbruck. They do not meet again...
...Each affair will start at 5.30 and run until 8.30. Members of other Houses may dine at Dunster with the privilege of signing Inter-House and Inter-House guest slips. Tickets will be $1, couple or stag...
Just who the compilers are seems to be the chief mystery of the affair. The Social Register Incorporated, from their New York office categorically denied all knowledge of the existence or imminent birth of the "Harvardmen's Register", and emphatically withheld their authorization. It was being rumored at an advanced hour last night that the whole thing was devised by Cambridge printing companies who get tired waiting for books to be written or magazines to be published, and decided something should be done about...