Word: affair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senator Tobey ignored his party line to belabor a fellow Republican. Equipped with a portfolio crammed with documents, Tobey bellowed a demand for facts concerning a "wild party" given in New York by WMCA's President Donald Flamm, and attended by Brown. When Brown refused to discuss the affair, Tobey leered and boomed: "And is it true that one of the men at the party ran his hand up a woman's leg?" Later on Brown privately revealed that Flamm was a friend of long standing, that the party (given at Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe...
...Spencer Tracy, Edison beds down thriftily in the basement of a bank for which he soon contrives a stock ticker. He also has a decorous love affair with the future Mrs. Edison (Rita Johnson), invents the phonograph by left-handed chance, the electric light by hard work, battles heroically to secure the street-lighting franchise for Manhattan, signs off with honors...
Inside this framework Michael Todd (who last year produced The Hot Mikado and this year The Streets of Paris at the Fair) put on a show which, at 25?, is the best buy in the history of the amusement area. No high-brow affair, it is lavishly designed for the outdoors with floodlights, loudspeakers, has Irene Sharaff's gorgeous costuming and Hassard Short's lively direction, does a slick...
What he really believes in is "the Great Spirit -that's the true religion." What the Great Spirit consists of is James Fair's private affair. But eight years ago, while recovering from a knee operation, he was inspired to contribute to the Great Spirit a unique devotional labor...
Neville Chamberlain refused to discuss the Firth affair. But shortly before his Cabinet fell, one of his most influential critics, London's famed Economist, did. Calling the Richard Thomas board "trustees for the cartel," the Economist asked: "Can a centralized, cartel-like organization of industry, in which the interests of an individual firm are subordinated to those of the industry as a whole, be reconciled with the community's interest in the utmost speed of technical progress?" This question acquired a new urgency last week. For Britain has been importing 200,000 tons of steel a month from...