Word: affair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Youthbuilders, Inc. staged its biggest affair. Two hundred children and 100 distinguished grown-up guests gathered for a forum and luncheon. Welcomed by a children's committee-James Breetveld, Donald Fox and Morton ("Squeaky") Fleischman-was Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, the main speaker. Said chubby Elsie Reardon, 10: "When you disagree with a person, instead of socking...
Cincinnati is the runner-up having been chosen three times as the meeting place. Practically every other large city in the United States east of the Mississippi has been host to the annual affair...
...first official gathering of the Club after its foundation was at a dinner given at Delmonico's in February, 1866. 145 Harvard men in and immediately about New York "including Brooklyn," were asked to attend the affair, generally referred to as the "Lane Dinner," which was a decided success...
Heading the list of patronesses for the affair was Mrs. James Bryant Conant. Others included Mrs. Homer Albers of Brookline, Mrs. Stanley Cobb of Milton, Mrs. Grosvenor Calkins of Newton, Mrs. Harrison Lyman of Winchester, Mrs. Thomas W. Little of Belmont, Mrs. Arthur W. Reed of Belmont; Mrs. Frank A. Pemberton of Chestnut Hill and Mrs. Frank J. Ludwig of Brookline...
...transports and warships steaming away from shore. How many boatloads sank in the inferno the Nazis poured on them may not be known until the post-war opening of archives. At Gallipoli the British suffered 50,000 casualties out of 120,000 troops landed. The N. W. E. F. affair, a pint-sized Gallipoli, will probably lag far behind that proportion of losses. The rating of those who ordered it, and then countermanded it, will be even lower. The Germans saluted its departure with a furious effort to sink a battleship from the air, a loud but hollow claim...