Word: affair
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
There are 24 tickets left to a dinner dance being given by the Lowell Teachers' College at the Copley-Plaza Hotel on Wednesday evening, June 2nd. Army and Navy officers are invited. This is really going to be a nice affair. Hungry soldiers and sailors sign up with the Yeoman in the Navy office before they're all gone...
...seemed as though everybody showed up for Dog's Smoker at the Hasty Pudding Club last Friday. It means a lot of hard work so we had better start planning the next one. A vote of thanks should be extended to Walter Ollen, chairman of the affair, for his efforts on our behalf .. it did take a lot of his time and now we find him in Study Hall. He does feel that it was well worth, it, however, and it willing to do it all over again...
...find the dormitories of Mellon Hall deserted of potential 2nd Lieutenants, for they will be found at the Parker House Roof dancing with WAVES, WAACS, and & few "civilians" in celebration of their graduation the following Monday morning. By dint of the grapevine, this promises to be a very "gay" affair...
...been encouraged to do so. He is a shrewd enough politician to know that a demonstration of White House friendship should improve his position among his dissident countrymen. Before he left London, his Foreign Ministry announced that he will stay strictly away from the Russo-Polish affair ("the issue is between Poland, the Soviet Union and the western democracies"). And Mr. Roosevelt had already chosen his emissary to Moscow: Joseph E. Davies...
...sixth inning which saw the Stahlmen bunch four hits to manufacture three runs told the story in the Jumbo affair. With two men out, Sherman Clark hit a sharp single to left, and Gleason followed with a two-bagger, Clark pulling up at third, Captain Moe Berg dumped a bunt down the third base line and Clark romped home while the Jumbo infield waited anxiously and vainly for the ball to roll foul. Walt Sorgi clouted a long double, scoring Gleason and Berg, to clinch the ball game...