Word: affair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Open to all members of the University the August 26 affair will take the place of Lowell's annual spring ball...
...flat-dweller wrestled with his Morrison shelter-a flat, tablelike, metal affair, raised from the floor to admit mattress and sleeper, its sides wire-meshed against flying furniture, bricks-and glass. The bumped head (from mismeasured diving under the Morrison) was no longer worth even a casual remark...
Catherine Was Great (by Mae West; produced by Michael Todd) is an opulent and incredible fancy-undress affair in which the queen of all the sirens essays the Empress of All the Russias. "Catherine," said Mae West in a first-night curtain speech, "had 300 lovers. I did the best I could in two hours." For a while her best was reasonably good: she seemed to make Lords of the Bedchamber of the whole Russian court and boudwarriors of half the Russian army. As she followed her hips about the stage in a solemn slink, as she languidly drew shameless...
...affair is as pictured in your article, then it is one of the most serious breaches of American civil liberties I have ever heard of. If Beard's The Republic can be banned there is no reason why Plato's cannot also be banned...
Groups of patriotic young ladies were clustered about the stairs at the Statler Army-Navy Officers' affair. Herbie Gold, among others from chase, found it necessary to decline offers from these ladies to share the buck forty-eight expenditure for an evening of dance and laughter. Knowing these fellows would only lead to one conclusion; Fargo and the Coop have been very successful once more...