Word: affair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...popularity of Arpad and his little nephew, Gabe (who was added a year or so ago as a stooge), has reached beyond the city limits. Last March Arpad was invited to the annual luncheon of the Men of '88 Club, an affair at which survivors swap tall tales about New York's famed Blizzard of 1888. An amateur meteorologist asked (and got) permission to use a cast-iron replica of Arpad atop his New Jersey weather station. At least one Army flyer has a mascot Arpad painted on his plane. Arpad even gets Christmas presents (last week...
Victoria never knew why she began to torment her guests by emphasizing their stupidities. Niles did not know why he suddenly began a love affair with his cousin. Victoria did not know why she began a loveless affair with a doctor. Their neighbors, who watched the Grandolets growing richer, and Victoria becoming the cool, aloof mother of the Grandolet heir, did not know that the household was anything but successful. Victoria did not know, when the years of deception finally ended, why she looked at the columns of the mansion in the moonlight, turned her clearsighted ruthlessness against herself, began...
Fair Play. The feeling is bitterest in California. A month ago 4,000 Japs, segregated at Tule Lake for disloyalty, rioted; the affair was clumsily handled by the fumbling War Relocation Authority. Pro-U.S. Japs suffered from the Tule trouble. Almost their only defender has been the Pacific Coast Committee on American Principles and Fair Play. Among its board members: the University of California's President Robert Gordon Sproul; Stanford's former President Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur; the University of Oregon's President Donald Erb; Nobel Prizewinner Dr. Robert A. Millikan. But when the Fair Play...
...sound-recording machine which may upset the recording industry was in production last week in Manhattan. A compact affair not much bigger than a portable radio, it makes records on Cellophane tape. They are first class as to tone, and in durability, ease of production and cheapness they beat any records previously produced...
...ones for Christmas. He visited the school to see how his kids were making out; the teacher made him tell an assembly about "life in the desert." On his last night the family had a feast of roast lamb, boiled potatoes, cabbage, Queen's pudding-a spongy affair with...