Word: affair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reconstruct the fortunes of a German family from one of the strange, castle-like old mansions to be found here & there in the Southwest, he can also-as he does in the best story of the book-write a penetrating tale of a modern high-school love affair and its aftermath...
...first intercollegiate bridge tournament eyer to be held in the United States, it was sponsored by two prominent alumni of each of the schools. They hope to make the event an annual affair...
...Southerners are coached by Gardner Mulloy, nationally ranking star, and have an edge on the Crimson delegation in condition and practice this season, but the team match should be a close affair. Captain Dave Hurt, Langdon Gilkey, and Johnny Palfrey will be anything but soft touches...
...vivid work of the senses by which Duncan explores the house, the April countryside and the consciousnesses around him is one of this novel's claims to distinction. But its serious drive is in a love affair between Duncan and Sophie-an affair begun by Sophie's perverse need and boredom, matured by Duncan's perception, patience and intelligence. The story suggests not only the particular value of the erotic experience for the blind man but the civilized human sanity of his conduct. And-since Author Heppenstall does not cheat, or barely does at the happy...
Faced with the trouble to trying to present the Freshman Smoker, planned for April 30, on the slopes of the mountain peak in Sanders Theatre, Committee Chairman John Richardson, Jr. '43 has decided to hold the affair in Memorial Hall...