Word: affair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next to me is a hurdy-gurdy affair giving forth lovely Italian-sounding music. A funny old guy stands there turning the wheel as soldiers group around and listen...
Heeren is seldom told what a chemical is wanted for, but in most cases he can make a shrewd guess. Because many a chemical, like Michler's ketone, is known by more than one name, Heeren's file is a complicated affair. Once a chemist asked for sodium propionate; after long research Heeren discovered that this rarity was made in hundreds of tons as an insecticide under the trade name "Mycoban." He learned to watch out for requests from cranks and small-boy amateurs who some times ask for dangerous ingredients. His mail varies between advanced chemical information...
...Hallowe'en motif was used for decorating the building and the wives and husbands provided entertainment for the affair. Mrs. Charles Van Voorhis sang several numbers to the accompaniment of planist Ens. Hubert Donaldson; a 12-year-old girl, Elaine Burke, performed tap and acrobatic dancing numbers; and a musical trio was accompanied by 1/c Yeoman Howard Locke. It included Mrs. Ben Hardy, Mrs. Earl Canfield and Mrs. Lee Mills. Ens. Jack Reichart was master of ceremonies...
...affair was under the auspices of the Navy Wives Club with Mrs. Robert W. Leavenworth as chairman. Other committee members included: Mrs. William R. Yates, Mrs. H. L. Constant, Mrs. Harry Smith, Mrs. Lewis Levy, Mrs. R. H. Lewitt and Mrs. J. H. Reichart...
This story is told so expertly, detail by detail, that the whole unlikely affair seems believable. More than that-it often approximates hard and honest facts about war and about people. In the routine war melodrama it is always an American prisoner who, faint with thirst, scornfully refuses to yield information while an enemy officer drinks his fill and tosses the surplus into the sand. Here, the situation is reversed. Sahara rings dozens of such changes on old formulas, and in their simple way they make more hard sense pictorially than most documentaries...