Word: affair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beside the Battle of 1941, the 16th-century Battle of Lepanto, which finally reasserted the dominance of Christendom over the infidel Turk, seems an uncomplicated affair. In it 208 low Christian galleys and six monstrous galleasses submitted 250 Turkish galleys to a parade of broadsides, sank 80 and captured 130. During the action Cervantes (Don Quixote) received three gunshot wounds, one of which maimed his left hand-"for the greater glory of the right," he said...
...ancestral home when the bank foreclosed and sold it to a young Manhattan sportsman, Norman Williams (Stirling Hayden). They become two corners of a four-cornered triangle. The other two are Stoney's wandering wife, a man-crazy flibbertigibbet (never seen in the flesh) who once had an affair with Norman, and Charlie Dunterry (Madeleine Carroll), a Southerner reared in the north who comes back to have a look at her family homestead...
Aline Bernstein is a Manhattan theatrical designer, one of the best in the business. She is also an author. Her first book, Three Blue Suits, was short stories. Her second, The Journey Down, was a novel about a middle-life love affair. An Actor's Daughter, her third, is her memoirs from birth to marriage, but it reads like a novel...
...Empress of Australia were sunk, this was big news, and U. S. editors slapped it on the front page. But within nine hours after the messages had been received the British denied that the Empress was sunk. She was safely in port. This turned the affair from tragedy to mystery. Nearest neutral port into which the Empress could have put from the position given was Freetown, over 600 miles away. At full speed it would have taken the Empress at least 24 hours to get there; yet the British Government declared her in port nine hours after the incident...
...last week Argentina's Ministry of Agriculture revealed that they were doing business again (though not on any $100,000,000 scale). Spanish ships were already in Argentine ports, ready to load 200,000-300,000 tons of wheat (market value: $3,700,000-$5,500,000). The affair was being financed by a "public utility having financial connections with Spain." Best guess was that that meant Sofina, international utility trust which owns properties both in Spain and in Argentina. Perhaps penniless Franco was holding Sofina's Spanish properties for ransom money to be delivered in Buenos Aires...