Word: affair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ironic and unfortunate is the part Phillips Brooks House has played in the Y.A.A. affair. Brooks House had no knowledge of the actual nature of the supposedly innocent "Sunday afternoon discussion group"; and Dean Sperry has stated that unless James can disprove the accusations made against him, the privilege of holding his meetings at P.B.H. will immediately be revoked. But Brooks House must still be blamed for an understandable yet careless grant of the use of its rooms to an outside organization whose purposes it had not first investigated...
...such rare, insufficiently flattering criticism as Julia Ward Howe's ("she thought [Ella's ability] might be developed into real talent with study and hard work"), her fatal love of making a sensation, gratified by the tempest of propriety that erected Poems of Passion, her brief affair with James Whitcomb Riley (his levity wounded her), her marriage with solid, devoted Robert Wilcox, "a gentleman in every sense of the word" (who years later confided to a fellow club member his astonishment at having found the poetess of passion a virgin...
...pool is only a 20 yard affair, thus making all times slightly faster and converting the customary 50 yard dash into a 60 yard race. As a result, the Crimson mermen have deserted their pool several times this week to practice at the Cambridge YMCA, another 20 yard tank...
Actually there had been a usual and very British adjustment of the whole affair behind the scenes, but London editors, whom Mr. Hore-Belisha had made his best press agents, had given the affair a fine buildup. Cartoonists had a field day (see cut). On this occasion Mr. Hore-Belisha may have regretted the warm friendship, for he saw that much the best thing for his political future is to retire quietly with a stiff British upper...
Because he had issued no warnings at the time of the St. Louis affair, Judge Landis exacted no further penalties against Detroit, although fines of from $500 to $1,000 for each offense were in order, and banishment of Detroit's General Manager Jack Zeller possible. Instead, Baseball's Landis laid down the laws of farming, for every manager in the land, and he issued fair warning. For farm violations hereafter: no mercy...