Word: affair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...delegates went back to their free-for-all talk fest, reached no decision except to make this an annual affair. There was no doubt of the stirrings of new power they now felt in themselves...
...apologized with a winning Gallic bow). Frank Shields's big service was too big for Borotra, just as it had been in the Wimbledon semi-finals 16 years ago. Score: 12-10, 6-2. Smiled the Bounding Basque, who plans no serious comeback: "A most pleasant affair. I played badly...
...Madison Square Garden, it was an even pleasanter affair for another Frenchman...
...friendly affair, that introduces likable people and captures a nice stage warmth; but it is also pretty thin and frail. Its conventionally retarded romance involves a professor's daughter (already engaged to a dull, career-minded architect) and a colonel who comes home from war to find the professor's family occupying his apartment. The amusingly meddlesome professor (played with gusto by Joseph Buloff) keeps the architect-whom he doesn't want for a son-in-law - hopelessly buried in blueprints so that the colonel can have a clear field with the girl...
Despite the extraordinarily short time remaining for its work, the Freshman Committee will have a completely free hand in planning all the details of the affair, according to Edric A. Weld, Jr. '46, Student Council member in charge of voting...