Word: affair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Playing a team that is as yet an unknown quantity, the Bunnies could not push over a single counter against the strong Dunster line, and for three quarters the game was a see-saw, ding dong affair, with neither side really coming close. Sole exception was the first period goal line stand by the Funsters after an interception deep in their territory...
...Canadian town of Frelighsburg. You state that Premier Godbout of Quebec rapped the knuckles of the Lidice Lives Committee, and of its executive chairman, Clifton Fadiman. As a member of the Lidice Lives Committee, and as the individual who visited Godbout and had all details of the affair in hand, I feel qualified to give you the facts...
...feudal days when the spirit of France shot up and gushed forth like a fountain. That "honor and sainthood are his two absolutes" reminds me of that French sea captain in Conrad's Lord Jim, who on diagnosing Jim's trouble in the Patna affair, finishes "the honor, monsieur! . . . The honor . . . that is real" and goes away-his shabby cape swinging...
Shape of the world's second-best-known mustache, said Charles Spencer Chaplin, will be changed for the first time in more than 20 years of picturemaking. The new model will be a delicate Gallic affair to fit a cinesatire on Henri Landru, the French Bluebeard. Wendell Willkie, back home in Rushville (see p. 20), eagerly looked forward to his first haircut since Cairo, 6,500 miles, six weeks back. From Vichy came an eye-catching picture of dapper Porfirio Rubirosa, Dominican chargé d'affaires, his smart new wife, Cinemactress Danielle Darrieux, her hat -a full-fashioned...
Then he attacked the catalogue of courses. Most State university presidents agree that the worst handicap to education in their universities is the curriculum, a Sears, Roebuck affair that makes little connected sense. Inveighing against this "trade-school" trend in U.S. higher education, President Brandt launched a plan (like the Hutchins plan at the University of Chicago) whereby every Oklahoma undergraduate must complete a two-year course of liberal education before he is allowed to specialize...