Word: affair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...citizen carefully not selected was Marshall Field, whose Chicago Sun fights the Tribune on everything. Growled crusty Lawyer Silas H. Strawn, who headed a committee, composed mostly of rock-ribbed reactionaries, that arranged the affair: "This isn't a Marshall Field dinner-we are not peddling tickets all around town. This party is being paid for by some of us fools who are friends of the Colonel, and it isn't hard to see he has a lot of them...
...full details of his sensational story are still to be checked. One official of the Rotterdam Museum has a theory of his own: Van Meegeren may be a muddy-minded fantast with a grudge against museums. Some Dutch art experts, who stand to lose considerable prestige over the affair, just plain don't believe a word of Van Meegeren's story...
Alsace-Lorraine: rural, albeit earthly-wise, natural type; not the type for a casual affair; eminently wholesome but, withal, drab. Luxembourg: a puzzle. With all the outward appurtenances of modernity they still are, well, provincial. Belgium: a decided improvement (especially in the Arlon-Bastogne sector). The female form begins to show signs of having been groomed for its primary purpose...
...price. The power of the U.S. in the western Pacific is already too strong to permit their going to war again in the foreseeable future. But the Japanese have never been told, even in general terms, that such a restricted life need not mean U.S. domination of their every affair, need not mean everlasting international disgrace...
Sole purpose of the quiz (an annual affair is to stimulate interest; no grades are based on it. Says Master Oliver Vanoff: "I often have to use a dictionary myself when I set the paper...