Word: affair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...affair, the first since-before the war, is planned to complete the reorientation for members on intercollegiate athletics in general and the future of Harvard athletics in particular. Undoubtedly the new Ivy League Agreement will come in for considerable comment...
TIME ERRS IN STORY ON UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA [OCT. 22]. FRANKLIN C. ERICKSON, EMINENT GEOGRAPHER BUT NO KIN TO THE UNDERSIGNED, WAS NOT INVOLVED IN THE DURHAM INTER-RACIAL DINNER NOR WAS IT A TWOSOME AFFAIR BUT RATHER AN HONORARY DINNER GIVEN BY NEGRO CITIZENS OF DURHAM, MOSTLY DEMOCRATS, IN RECOGNITION OF A MEMBER OF THEIR RACE WHO HAD ACHIEVED NATIONAL PROMINENCE. THE UNDERSIGNED WAS ONE OF SOME 20 WHITE PEOPLE WHO WERE INVITED AND ATTENDED. E. C. DANIEL, THEN A CUB REPORTER FOR RALEIGH NEWS AND OBSERVER, AND NOW WITH THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, PLAYED UP THE STORY...
...Family Affair. In Stevenson, Wash., Beverly Jean Hays's mother and grand mother took their new boy friends along to watch Beverly get married by a justice of the peace, saw how easy it was and decided to make it a triple play...
...China in November. The world's most powerful nation was not then ready to plan the peace of the most populous. We acted on hope and in furtherance of Japanese dis armament. Now Americans may duck out, but the U.S. has gone too deeply into the China affair to duck all responsibility for what may ensue. If all-out civil war develops, our moral position may be more uncomfortable than...
...plays goes deeper, however. In "The Voice of the Turtle" van Druten raised the moral level of his ideas by having his promiscuous young couple fall in love in the end. In "The Mermaids Singing" he takes the objectionable crackle out of his created situation by dramatizing an affair which doesn't come off. "The Voice of the Turtle" was carefully cast, brilliantly written, and subtly directed. So is "The Mermaids Singing," but, as a play, the former remains much the superior...