Word: affair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...should have been the moment the question of succession arose) he would have, been bound to give Princess Margaret the opposite advice. The Premier's own marriage, according to the Archbishop's doctrine, is not a true marriage. No wonder that the upshot of the whole affair in Parliament and the country is a demand for Disestablishment...
Almost every aspect of the show seemed to suffer the dire effects of too little time. Fortunately, there were frequent indications that this was the major shortcoming of the whole affair; most of the actors showed that despite their lack of polish they were capable of highly creditable performances, and John van Itallie's direction, too, seemed a basically competent job spoiled by lack of time for study and correction...
...speculation of the keyhole-peepers had become only a tinkling obbligato behind the sterner voices. Whatever else the royal family may be in modern Britain-symbol of ancient legitimacy, shining emblem of Commonwealth unity, indestructible warranty of the glory that is Britain-it is first and foremost a family affair: every spinster is its maiden aunt, every shopgirl its happily envious kid sister, every vicar its parish priest, and every family man its authoritative uncle. In moments of relative calm, the country cousins can watch and enjoy the cavortings of their royal relations in London with the detachment of televiewers...
Last week, in press and pulpit, in barroom and barbershop, in the family parlor and the public park, the British people voiced their sympathy, their shock, their approval, their disapproval, or their angry impatience at the whole affair. The circumstances were becoming familiar enough to permit a few small and very English jokes about it. In a Punch cartoon, an impressionable child thoughtfully counted the peas on her plate to the words, "Tinker, tailor, soldier, group captain." A BBC comedian asked his straight man to read the day's news. "They had tea together again," intoned the other...
...Bishop of Liege, one witness testified, had himself arranged for Anneke to be hidden (under an assumed name). Another witness revealed that Anneke had been baptized in the Roman Catholic Church. Anna's foster mother, said the district attorney, "could have expected guidance from the Church in this affair, but the guidance was not forthcoming." Instead, she got "concrete help" in abducting Anneke from the ex-priest who also helped kidnap Betty and from two mother superiors...