Word: affair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Darcy, the wit and spirit of Elizabeth Bennet (Greer Garson) eclipse the distressing machinations of Mrs. Bennet (Mary Boland) in her search for rich husbands for her five marriageable daughters. He breaks up an unsuitable affair between Elizabeth's sister and his friend Mr. Bingley, then with an air of misfortune announces that he is willing to make an unsuitable match himself. At which point, Austenites recall, Elizabeth gives him his comeuppance. Before Darcy's pride and Elizabeth's prejudice give way, some ob servers may find the going a little lacy...
...mutual assistance [with Great Britain and France] could not be expected, we could not but explore other possibilities of insuring peace and eliminating the danger of war between Germany and the U. S. S. R. If the British and French Governments refused to reckon with this, that is their affair. It is our duty to think of the interests of the Soviet people, the interests of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics...
This week Mexico had an election. The nation took it seriously; deadpanned the act, as if it really were enjoying all the blessings of democratic free choice, instead of a wide-open affair of pistoleros and cheats. As a matter of fact, it looked early in the week as if the election might come closer to democracy than anything Mexico ever had. There was the usual Government-sponsored, in-the-bag candidate. But there were also three other candidates, and one of them, though he had not a paisano's prayer of winning, nevertheless was conceded a chance...
...fork at a domestic, missed the girl, but harpooned her feeble-minded father. Then she killed her mother with a carving knife. Such behavior was considered extraordinary even in literary circles that included Cole ridge, Godwin, Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt and De Quincey. While friends hushed up the tragic affair, Mary Lamb was sent away to a private asylum (Charles had already passed six weeks in the Hoxton mad house). Coleridge wrote her letters of metaphysical commiseration, which baffled Charles and may have enraged Mary. One day after her release she was quietly talking to Coleridge. Suddenly she seized his wrist...
Suddenly an explosion shook the vessel, one Argentine lay dead and five wounded as a result of an improvised time bomb concealed in a beef tin. An hour later pro-Nazi, Hitler-decorated Secretary of the Navy Leon Lorenzo Scasso expediently glossed over the affair: "A fire, source unknown." Threatened by a strong tendency toward native Fascism from within, alarmed by President Vargas' utterances as head of its most important rival for South American leadership, faced by a 30% decrease of European markets since the outbreak of the war (although trade with Britain is way up), Argentina too turned...