Word: affair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...senior class can be justly proud of its much-postponed affair. Combining a little music, more laughs, much liquid, and a spot of more or less extra-curricular entertainment in the form of a quartet, two vocalists, and a few words from "the Moose," those who attended walked away contented...
...Limbo. In bits & pieces, the story of the Poles' disappearance had already come out. Last March the Russians notified the Poles that they would be glad to talk things over with a select, list of underground leaders. The Yalta agreement was not mentioned; this, ostensibly, was an internal affair between the Russians and the Poles. Among the Poles so honored were Deputy Prime Minister Jan Jankowski, and leaders of the principal parties (Socialist, Peasant, Nationalist, Christian Democrat) opposing Moscow's Warsaw regime. Another was General Leopold Okulicki, who had succeeded Tadeusz Bor, leader of the ill-fated Warsaw...
...Ferguson make headlines. In 1938 he was on the Committee of Eight, with such professors as Felix Frankfurter, Kenneth B. Murdock '16, Ralph Barton Perry, Arthur M. Schlesinger, and Harlow Shapley, which was appointed by President Conant to investigate terminating appointments at Harvard after the much-touted Walsh-Sweezy affair...
Without Love (M.G.M.), a completely successful projection of the Philip Barry play, tells of a scientist (Spencer Tracy) who got burned by the persistence of a bad love affair and a widow (Katharine Hepburn) who got frozen by the termination of a good marriage. Without love, they get along so well as they work together on the scientist's high-altitude oxygen mask that they decide to marry. Without love, marriage, too, looks like a perfect setup-for a while...
...beautiful niece. Leni, had raised succulent beer-radishes on the little island, while his two old sisters, Martha and Anna, sailing up & down at opposite ends of a seesaw, had pumped the Danube water over the crop. "Bolshevist swine," said Gauleiter Stoltz, when he saw the Fischers after the affair of the pig. "Lord & Lady of Radish Island, and two old crows." Old Anton rose from his seat in the beer garden, carefully removed the Gauleiter's spectacles, and smacked both sides of the Nazi's fat face until his old arm was tired...