Word: affair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Terry). To her the scoffer even babbled baby talk. For her he wrote Pygmalion. Against her, even when she tacked on her own ending to the play, he was powerless. When Beatrice Stella Campbell died at 75 last week, with her ended Shaw's second famed platonic love affair...
...contrast to a complete lunar or "umbral" eclipse, when the moon passes through the direct shadow of the earth, this affair is called "penumbral" because the moon merely travels through the outer, partial shadow, just missing the earth's direct shadow by a few minutes...
...whole affair would give me no concern if it affected no one other than the but of your cartoon and the subject of the article itself. The faculty is, no doubt, fair game for the Crimson, and I am sure your whole story was intended to be very amiable and flattering to me. You must realize, however, that the repercussions in the outside press from such a story might seriously embarrass one who holds a very important public office. My own views are so extreme that they are incompatible with political responsibility to an electorate that certainly holds quite different...
Latest problem to confront Joseph P. Lyford '41, Chairman of the Lowell House Committee, is the choice of an appropriate name for the Bellboys' Spring Dance. The committee has already suggested a name for the affair, to which all dancers will be expected to come dressed as characters from the funnypapers. However, Lyford has rejected the name put forward on the grounds that it is "salacious and misleading." The suggested title was, "The Lowell House Comic Strip Dance...
...Mitchell, brought up by his well-to-do French grandmother, senses the snobbery of Kings Row when he sees his schoolmates snub the birthday party of Cassandra Tower, whose strange, brilliant father remains aloof from the town. Later Parris goes to study medicine with Dr. Tower, carries on an affair with neurotic, beautiful Cassandra. The evil of the world smites Parris suddenly in one week when his beloved grandmother dies of cancer, his revered teacher Dr. Tower poisons Cassandra and kills himself. A notebook of Dr. Tower's intimates that he had been more than a father...