Word: affair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dashing, suntanned Barry, who said: "What you need is some good lively sex with a real man who'll fling you around the room. . . ." Said Laura: "There must be another way out." "Of course," said Barry crossly, "you might try collecting stamps. . . ." So Laura began a half-hearted affair with Barry, who flung her around the room, but looked "as if [his] head were screwed on like an Easter rabbit's and [his] body full of gumdrops...
Most of Star of the Unborn is a travelogue through the future. Its chief action involves a halfhearted love affair between F. W. and an Astromental girl and the final fierce clash between the retrogrades and the Astromentalists. The nub of Author Werfel's posthumous philosophy lies in his quotation from Valentinus the Gnostic: "There are two fundamental species of angels. The ones helped man from the beginning to make the earth habitable. The others prevented him from doing it. Mankind is still far too immature to be told which of these angels are the good ones and which...
Ottawa well knew, and so did many another discerning Canadian, that the Russian search for scientific data in the Dominion was neither surprising nor reprehensible ; the best nations do it. To official Canada, the whole affair was purely domestic: some civil servants obviously had acted, if not treasonously, at least unpatriotically in giving away - or perhaps selling - atom-bomb data and other information. Unperturbed by international hubbub (and inexperienced in it) Canada concentrated on tidying up her own house, and ignored Moscow's roar for the time being (see INTERNATIONAL...
...modern man, whose back he compared to a saxophone. Slouching, said he, causes autointoxication of the digestive organs, displacement of the stomach from its normal position, a trap to collect poisons. And modern man is an inveterate sloucher -according to Dr. McAuliffe, "still a rather simian affair...
...what caused Wall Streeters to raise their brows in the whole affair was the manner in which Andy Higgins was cashing in by going out of business. Never a big moneymaker in prewar years (Higgins Industries made a net profit of only $31,748 in 1939), Higgins Industries had grown fat on war orders for ships. The stock plan would render this fat into cash...