Word: affair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Highlight of the brief affair was a close-order drill by the Naval Science regiment, executed with timing and precision. After the ROTC exhibition, which was preceded by a simultaneous salute of welcome to the visiting notables, the entire unit passed before Admiral Theobald, Captain George N. Barker, USN, and Dean Buck...
...blocks away, seated at a long luncheon table in the California Club. The Republican Finance Committee was meeting to eat squab and talk finances-an affair planned long before Willkie's trip. He got a belated invitation. Naturally he dominated it. Again he gave an off-the-record, face-to-face turkey talk; again he left with real applause ringing in his ears...
...vengeance upon Police Gazette Journalist Sam McGee (Robert Young) by telling the rest of the press that he has wooed her for her fortune. She gets him fired. Journalist McGee gallantly retaliates by popularizing the Sweet Rosie O'Grady song and by publishing an account of their mythical affair. Soon they are really in love...
Dickerson, up from New York's Downtown Cafe Society, blew some magnificent, dirty trombone and was the hit of the affair with his horn and vocal and Black and Blue. Newton and Morgan shared the vocals on a blues that also highlighted the session, and Arthur Karle (ex-Goodman tenor saxophonist) knocked out the crowd with several fine choruses. The musicians form something of a mutual admiration society and it certainly showed in the wonderfully cohesive ensembles they improvised on most numbers...
...long delayed because of financial difficulties, Originally announced as the last Advocate for the duration, this issue is dedicated to Russia and will contain translations of Russian literature since 1917 as well as critisims of Russian drama. A punch planned along the lines of last year's Somerset Maughm affair will be held on October 9 to celebrate the issue...