Word: affair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Luncheon was a family affair at Buckingham Palace. King Edward and Queen Mary there decided that when a British warship soon tows the Royal Yacht Britannia's hulk out to be sunk in the. Channel, this will be done in secret, lest yachtsmen and seafarers congregate unduly. The beloved yacht of King George, "The Sailor King," has now been stripped of its best things which were sold at auction in 344 lots last week at East Cowes...
...British and it was brave to get ready to believe that the new Lifeline of Empire is better, stronger and more glorious than the old. It runs clear around Africa, past the ominous Cape, whose storms were once so deadly to sailing ships. It is no narrow, canalized affair of jealous Europe's pesky little Mediterranean or rebellious Egypt's Suez, but a broad route over the bounding main...
...workers in six Remington-Rand plants-Ilion, Tonawanda and Syracuse, N. Y., Marietta and Norwood, Ohio and Middletown, Conn. By last week the strike had got down to scabs, scuffles, professional strikebreakers and pitched battles with police. Though President Rand considered it largely the work of Communists, the affair apparently originated last year when the company bought a factory in Elmira...
...those of the 20th century who think that a Harvard Commencement in the 18th century must have been a very dull and colorless affair, I should like to submit the following notes. The first is from the diary of John Rowe, Boston Merchant, for whom the present Rowe's Wharf in Boston was named. July...
...betimes, about 8 o'clock, waked by a blasted noise between a band, a drunk and a junk man, nobody after I up being able to tell me what it was. But--did say it be no noise at all, but only a brain disturbance of the Senior Spread affair, and this I can believe, for never in my life have I been to such a sweaty, messy affair, nor had such poor supper, nor heard such good music but with so little space to make merry in. Bless my soul, scarce lives there...