Word: affair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nevertheless when war broke out, and especially when Poland fell and the conflict became a one-front affair, Allied practice followed Liddell Hart theory closely. The dropping of War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha, a faithful disciple of Captain Liddell Hart, was supposed to presage an Allied swing to the offensive. But up until last week the Allied High Command had shown no signs of turning away from Liddell Hart orthodoxy. And last week, in a North American Newspaper Alliance dispatch, the Captain himself showed that nothing in the war's first half-year had changed his mind. His thoughts...
...seems valid: the struggle in Rawlings between the idealism that made him take on a sickening job, and the nausea induced by the job itself. The other conflict-love v. duty-is old stage twaddle which Adapter Glazer could not bring to life. Despite its bold beginning, the love affair is flimsy, vaporous, unreal, nearly sinks the play. Only eloquent rhetoric holds the second half of The Fifth Column together. And nothing could be less characteristic of Hemingway than eloquent rhetoric...
...skits in a four-man entry of students into the competition between professional models and debs. Songs from the show are also to be sung at the charity affair...
...HAVEN, Conn,--Yale's magnificent swimmers overcame the Crimson tankmen, 55 to 20 this evening in a bitterly contested meet in the exhibition pool of the Payne Whitney gymnasium. The Elis clinched the affair after they swept first and second places in the breastroke...
...game started out to be a seesaw affair, and up till 16 to 16 neither team could get a lead. The Ed Buckley and Sam White sank foul shots, Bud Finegan dropped a goal from under the basket, and Charley Lutz dribbled through the Yale defense to score, and Harvard was out in front by six points. A moment latter Buckley and Franny Simpson scored again and the margin went up to eight. The score at the half kept this lead intact...