Word: affair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...contingents are expected from North Carolina--which just racked up its sixth southern title in seven years--and Williams, which cleaned up the New England meet last week at M.I.T. Neither the Crimson nor Yale were represented in the latter affair. The higgest single aggregation is, of course, Yale--with 27 men--, followed by a 17-man group from the home squad...
Tennist Bill Tilden turned dramatist with a play about a mental-case mother, a kidnaped child and a brother-sister love affair. Called New Shoes, it opened in Los Angeles. The Times pronounced it "malodorous, but. . . delicate enough and . . . well written...
...English experience includes an affair with an English scenic designer, satisfying his vague desire since adolescence to go to bed with a white woman; scrapbooks filled with clippings on his flight; dinners in his honor; studies in aeronautics, half-purposeful, partly an excuse for remaining in England; candid talks with Englishmen whose fairness and honesty about India's nationalism are a surprise to him after the Britons he had known in India...
...affair with a tough little Eurasian named Thelma Morrison-one of those clinical matings, ruthlessly antiromantic, which seem to be a feature of contemporary fiction, whether laid in Bombay or Westchester. His sister goes to jail in a riot, his friend Salim is assassinated and he himself attacked in ambush. His project for an airline transporting pilgrims comes to nothing (the pilgrims get airsick) and he settles down to a job as a commercial airlines pilot...
Free beer, cigarettes, ice cream, and soda will also greet all fun-seeking Freshmen who Geek to Sauders for the much-heralded affair. Corn-Cob pipes may also be given away as seventies said the countries. Purchase of a percent program will cover the admission...