Word: affair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sole remaining civilian formal of the winter season will be the dance at Lowell House tomorrow evening. By a vote of Adams House the Gold Coasters' affair of Saturday, January 27, became an informal. Though the Adams event is open to everyone, the dance tomorrow has been restricted to Lowell men and their dates...
...Case might win. But Tories foresaw a split of the anti-Liberal vote. If his candidate lost, Prime Minister King would almost certainly have to appeal the verdict to the whole country. Already it was conceded in Ottawa that the opening of Parliament (Jan. 31) would be a token affair, that real work would await the outcome of Grey North's voting...
...friendliest of spirits. The refusal of the other studios to see it their way had much to do with Warners' withdrawal from the Hays Office. The effect on the picture has been, on the whole, unfortunate. Unable to make it clear that the Canteen is an all-Hollywood affair, Warner Bros, has gone rather more than all out the other way, and treats itself as if rice were slithering out of its lingerie. But as a grab bag of short turns, encores and gracious gestures by well-liked Warner names (Dennis Morgan, Jack Benny, John Garfield, Bette Davis, Jane...
Skeptical scientists, baffled by the whole affair, were inclined to dismiss the fireballs as an illusion, perhaps an afterimage of light which remained in the pilots' eyes after they had been dazzled by flak bursts...
Jack Brunner has planned another "spotlight affair." This time it's a trip to the mountain North Conway, New Hampshire, for a ski weekend. This trip has already shown the sings of Jack's genius for the novel--at least on paper--what with a troupe of well stocked St. Bernards, steam-heated boots...