Word: affair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Only there was no question. In the Senatorial gentlemen's club, there was no chance of blocking the appointment, and old George Norris knew it. Nevertheless Norris rose to speak his mind: to indict political machines such as Hague's and political deals like the Meaney affair...
...Canada's classiest three-year-olds to the post for the 13th running of the Canadian Derby, there was nobody at the pari-mutuel windows. Reason: touted Ten to Ace, shipped west from Toronto, was so overwhelmingly favored that track officials had declared the race a "no-betting" affair...
...also of the dark and tortuous workings of the Oriental mind. At the same time, the student of history had a unique opportunity of watching history in the making. Already the clouds of war were breaking over the Far East. In Tokyo Reischauer witnessed the outbreak of the "China Affair." In Peking he studied to the accompaniment of Japanese gunfire from the surrounding hills. Finally, in 1938, leaving the Sons of Heaven to pursue their murderous course of aggression, Reischauer returned to the comparative calm of Harvard, where he was appointed Faculty Instructor in Far Eastern Languages. Today, through...
MURDER IN RETROSPECT-Agatha Christie-Dodd, Mead ($2). Hercule Poirot prods the memories of surviving participants in a 16-year-old English seaside poisoning affair, pulls out the unsuspected killer and clears the scutcheon of a young girl whose mother was convicted of the crime. An exciting exercise in high-&-low deducing...
...Director's Reception and Dance tonight at Memorial Hall opens the season. Featuring a reception from 8:30 to 9:30 o'clock and dancing until 1 o'clock, the affair is stag from beginning to end and admission is by receipted Summer School bills, Harvard or Radcliffe Bursar cards, and appropriate identification by Faculty members...