Word: affair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...typical girlish fashion, the inhabitants of the only Radcliffe Houses open this summer, left undecided the important business of just when the dance would be held. At nightfall, two equally-divided factions were holding out for a tea dance and an after-dinner affair...
...Macomber Affair. Hemingway's savage version of the war between the sexes with Robert Preston, Joan Bennett and Gregory Peck in fine African settings (TIME, April...
...They are good but not great," spoken by the men-who-know, silenced the affair until last Saturday when the Crimson eight splashed across the finish line at the Lake Washington Regatta in the astounding, record-breaking time of 5 minutes 49 seconds. The best time up to then for a placid surface was 13 seconds slower, and last Saturday Bolles was reliably reported to say that "this is the best sprint crew I ever coached...
Disingenuous Nosiness. Author Goertz sees her heroine as only a little lower than the angels. Her innocently disingenuous nosiness helps to bring about a marriage between two cripples, a therapeutic romance for a depressed war widow, a happy ending in a sordid triangle affair. Even her death from heart trouble helps: a friend, radical and fanatic, somehow learns a lesson in elementary humanity...
...Macomber Affair. Hemingway's savage version of the war of the sexes, with Robert Preston, Joan Bennett, Gregory Peck (TIME, April...