Word: affair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Something about the affair smelled fishy. Handsome, taciturn Acting President Ramon S. Castillo was having trouble with his legislators. Last week he was anxious to get a new budget passed, a proposal loan of $110,000,000 from the U.S. approved. But the Radical majority of the Chamber of Deputies would not hear of it until he assured them that this winter's Buenos Aires provincial elections (for 42 out of 158 Chamber seats) would be held under Federal, not provincial, law. This would put an end to a long-established system of election fraud by which Acting President...
First social affair of the year will be a record dance in the Common Room the night of the Cornell game. House members admitted free with or without dates; others with dates a buck a couple...
...regard to the second recommendation, the abolition of the Freshmen Smoker, the Council this year decided upon a compromise measure and voted to reduce our ante from the customary $300.00 to $100.00. The Smoker Committee charged 35c admission and made it a most successful affair, resulting in a net profit of about $7.00. The Chairman of the Smoker Committee will submit his report within a few days. The Jubilee this year made a small profit which will be handed in to the Council with a report within the next few days. The 1944 Red Book was held up by unexpected...
...former affair, to which all Harvard and Radcliffe Freshmen are invited, will be held on Saturday at 9 o'clock in Agassiz Hall. Dress will be informal, and an efficient corps of ushers from the CRIMSON will guarantee that everybody meets everybody...
Gino's parents were Italian, very affectionate to each other and their children. But after Gino's father died, his mother changed. She neglected her children, had an affair with their uncle Aiello (Hamlet's Claudius), who used to beat them. Although Gino hated Aiello, he did not retaliate, for in his mind only his mother was guilty. After Aiello, his mother became promiscuous...