Word: affair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Aware that any display of extravagance would be unseemly in these times, the Maharaja of Jodhpur announced that only a quarter of the amount originally earmarked would be spent on the approaching wedding of the heir apparent. The affair will cost scarcely...
...come. No one can know the final details; no one can say when they will come; no one can guarantee the students will not be subjected to weekly barrages like that which rained upon Cambridge yesterday. We can only wait, confident that the final blueprint will be no slipshod affair...
...their buccaneer abductors, settles down to handsomely routine piratical high jinks. For Sabatini-addicts there is veteran Director Henry King's expert translation of Sabatini's romantic novel about young love and buckets of blood on the Spanish Main. For others there is a coy love affair between Tyrone Power and Maureen O'Hara...
Once Upon A Honeymoon (RKO Radio). In this all-out attempt to break back into big-time production after a lean season, RKO's headmen took no chances. They brought able Author-Director-Producer Leo McCarey (Love Affair, Make Way for Tomorrow) out of two years of fruitless bondage to erratic Producer Howard Hughes. Ginger Rogers, who can pick & choose her vehicles, thought the story was too good to pass up. Gary Grant was paid a reputed $175,000 to play opposite her. Such a lustrous combination ought to have worked well, but it does not work as well...
...Winthrop-Kirkland affair showed the power of the strong third place Puritans as they stepped one futile step nearer the Leverett aggregation. Kirkland could not put on a consistent offense against their opponents and never once got inside the Winthrop 20-yard stripe...