Word: affair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...short effective thunderstorm bursts upon the scene. The heroes are always smiling, and the villains always scowl. Nary a musketeer is scratched, while red-coated fiends are run through by the score. This all sounds tiresome, but the players operate with such incredible gusto that the whole affair becomes a delightful burlesque...
Barnard Hall has already put in a bid for 15 children in the five and six-year-old group. One dorm even wants the affair co-educational, with little girls--and little boys...
...pledge and withdraw from the national fraternity. There is considerable financial risk--their house is owned by a group of graduates who may feel strong ties to the national body--and there is the loss of pledging power that will be a big factor once the aroma of this affair passes...
...Before her marriage she had shocked orthodox Moslems with her Western ways. She dressed in the latest Paris fashions, swam and danced with vigor, and mixed freely with the cosmopolites in Alexandria's foreign colony. Her courtship by Egypt's young King Farouk had been a riotous affair during which the two were often seen careering through Cairo in Farouk's snappy speedster or dancing together at Shepheard's. Although some 400 Egyptians were trampled to death or otherwise injured in the jubilation that followed the wedding, all might have been well if only Farida...
...Georgia. Boswell not only kept a copy of the letter he wrote Rousseau asking for an interview ("J'écris mal le francais,'' he apologized), but managed to get his hands on a letter Rousseau wrote to his mistress, Mile. Levasseur (Boswell had a brief affair with her, while escorting her to London...