Word: affair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kinder-hearted feller you'd seldom ever see." Kind-hearted or not, Bass was laid for by the citizens of Round Rock, who had been warned by a stool pigeon of his intentions. Mortally wounded, Bass died two days later. The jail, a null affair built of heavy timbers, was forthwith erected, since crime was obviously getting to be a problem. But after 73 years of waiting for more gunfire. Round Rock decided that Sam's visit had been a little unusual, and sold the jail to Appliance Dealer Edward Walsh Jr. (who wanted the timber...
Publicity Chairman Stephen L. Singer '57 said that the exact time and place has not been decided upon yet, but the auditions will definitely take place next week. Half of the entertainment at the affair will be student; the other half, professional...
...Montmartre atelier for a picture to go into the soon-to-open International Exposition. I gladly accepted, and found that I was to be Archimedes [see cut] in what a studio aide called une peinture qui sera vraiment extraordinaire. Dufy frocked me in a white toga-like affair which had been borrowed from an amateur theatrical group, had me strike the pose he wanted, and then began to slash away with bold strokes ... all the while keeping up a fast line of chatter with various onlookers. I nearly fainted after having stood virtually motionless for 50 minutes-during which...
March: The Eliot House Committee will refuse to participate in the All-College Weekend because it feels the plans are "too boisterous. The affair will be renamed the "6/7 College Weekend...
...Women! (by Edward Chodorov) is an engaging comedy about the love affair between a middle-aged psychoanalyst (Franchot Tone) and a Freudian slip of a girl (Betsy von Furstenberg). On his wedding eve, Tone is disconcerted to learn from a new patient that his bride-to-be has a lurid past. A second patient, Anne Jackson, reveals that her embittered movie-star husband has decided to seduce Tone's fiancee to see if the analyst "can take it as well as dish...