Word: affair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Object together to such "violations of international law" as the Altmark affair...
...drove through a blizzard from Butte to Helena, where in 70 miles there are abandoned mines, a school for the feeble-minded and one town with 760 souls, one with 250, one with 125, and one with 68. At Helena, where the Parade of the Vigilantes is an annual affair, where Main Street runs along the bottom of Last Chance Gulch, and where natives eke out a meagre existence from gold, copper & silver mines, sheep & cattle ranches, the production of wheat, corn, oats, potatoes, etc., 1,000 of the city's 11,800 turned out to make the biggest...
...this Altmark affair, international law was fractured. First, Great Britain argued that Norway violated international law when the Altmark was allowed to pro ceed through neutral waters with concealed prisoners of war. Moreover, said Britain, the Norwegian authorities obviously shut their eyes to the Altmark'?, true character. The British Admiralty, in ordering a raid in neutral waters, certainly was breaking international law right & left, regardless of its excuses. While Berlin snarled horrendous but vague threats of reprisal at both Britain and Norway, the London Times heartily observed that the Battle of Punta del Este would have lacked a fitting...
...Governor Leverett Saltonstall, Congressman Hamilton Fish, Yachtsman Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, Poloist Thomas Hitchcock Jr., U. S. Ambassador to Italy William Phillips, Journalist Joseph Alsop, and Richard Whitney, now of Sing Sing Prison, of whom all good Porkies prefer not to speak. The Pore is very much a family affair. Upon its roster, generation after generation, appear the same proud Boston names-Adams, Ames, Amory, Cabot, Gushing, etc. Some years ago three great Massachusetts surnames were combined in one Porcellian: Endicott Peabody Saltonstall. When Endicott Peabody Saltonstall was appointed district attorney of Middlesex County, Irish Politician James Michael Curley exclaimed: "Good...
...come close enough and he'll clutch you like a drowning person, and down you both go." Resenting a Harvard professor's literary criticisms, Hubbard ever after blasted colleges: "A college de gree does not lessen the length of your ears; it only conceals it." When his affair with Schoolmistress Alice Moore created a national scandal, he coined and widely promoted an epigram on gossips: "When in doubt, mind your own business." Biographer Balch takes 320 pages to seek (vainly) for the clue to Elbert Hubbard's contradictory character. The shrewdest characterization is that of the Scottish...