Word: affair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Elizabeth & Philip would have a wedding with all the trimmings, after all. The public had shouted down all suggestions of an "austerity" affair. The ceremony would be held in Westminster Abbey, a Government spokesman said, probably in October. But it was "unlikely that . . . peers will be required to wear all their robes. . . . The moths have been in them...
...picture does have bad moments--most of them coming in the unfolding of the love story, which was frail stuff in the novel, too. The hero's adulterous affair, which was originally a succession of mildly immoral, quite dull interludes, has been scrubbed shiny clean by the conversion of the gal into an impeccably, impossibly genteel widow woman. Gable contrives to melt this Pallas Athena, Deborah Kerr, by fondling her tots and growling to her when they are not around, "A weekend in the country with separate rooms and sailboats on the water--that's for us, huh, honey? That...
Tickets for the affair will cost $3.00 and will go on sale at the end of the week in Kirkland, Eliot, and Lowell House dining halls. Because of the limited size of the Lowell House dining hall, only 200 tickets can be sold, he said...
...this was a Communist led affair. I will not believe the men who wrote such a sentence as "If Communists were among the demonstrators, good for them," did not know the organizing group was Communist. Their accusing the CRIMSON of spreading "the untruth that resistance to Smith was . . . primarily Communist" is at best disingenuous. The thing was led by Harry A. Mendelsohn and his AYD friends. Mendelsohn may not be a member of the party, but in two years acquaintance with him I've never seen him disagree with the party or fail to support its local front groups...
...outside, the clinic was manned entirely by the family. Daughter Dorothy was the receptionist; son-in-law John Curtis, the X-ray and physiotherapy technician. The building (financed by $100,000 the brothers had chipped in) looked like a gleaming vision straight out of Arrowsmith. A two-story limestone affair of 68 rooms done in tile, birchwood and oak, with shiny new medical equipment, the clinic had been personally planned and its construction supervised by the five boys...