Word: affair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wore long white kid gloves, bangs, and white dresses with pink and blue sashes. The opera was a polite and serious affair. In subsequent years, in going to the opera we have always felt it to be something of a rite, and it was with a feeling akin to guilt, even in later years, that either my sister or myself entered the refreshment room for a discreet cup of coffee...
...eastern racing season Saturday and Sunday with 50 contestants from eastern colleges expected in the langlauf, 100, in the slalom, and 30 inches of snow on Franconia's Cannon Mountain. The seven-mile cross country race is slated for Saturday in Franconia Notch while the slalom, a 1.8 mile affair down the mountain trail, will be held Sunday...
While the Franconia races will offer individual honors, the Lake Placid meet, an inter-collegiate affair scheduled from Monday, December 29 to New Year's Day, will be held on a team basis. Four events, cross country, downhill racing, jumping, and slalom plus a combination of the cross country and jumping, are planned. Each team can enter four men in each event, with the top three scoring. Last year, ten colleges, including Coach Bill Halsey's first post-war team, participated in the Lake Placid runnings...
...Applegate affair, which nearly resulted in the election of a figment of the imagination to the Freshman Smoker Committee, has implications beyond its obviously humorous aspects. It constitutes a vivid illustration of the election irregularities that can pass unnoticed when the Council employs election procedures that ignore the most elementary precautions necessary to insure a reasonably fair election...
...rhythm began to pad out softly behind her, she slithered cosily up to the mike and began to sway. First she gave them It's Just One of Those Things in a low and sultry voice. By the time she came to the line, "Our love affair was too hot not to cool down," the French found Lena's English perfectly translatable. And when she finished The Man I Love, and followed it with 'Deed I Do, Stormy Weather and Honeysuckle Rose, she had the Parisians in her hand...