Word: affair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Simultaneously, the rest of the squad will be guests at a dinner given by Frank Boland, manager of the Commander Hotel. The banquet is not an annual affair, but it is not unprecedented, Boland stated, "Once before I invited them, in Valpey's regime, when they were all down in the dumps...
Since those days, pioneer Modernist Cowell, now 56, has run up his own musical scores to more than 800, including eleven symphonies, and his music has been played around the world. None of his performances has ever caused so much public excitement as the Leipzig affair, but, as composer and teacher, Henry Cowell has had an undoubted influence on the music of the past three decades. Last week, for the 25th anniversary of his first regular teaching appointment, Manhattan's New School for Social Research staged a retrospective concert of his music. To mid-century ears, Cowell...
Blue Hole parents petitioned state officials in vain for a new school. The superintendent said that their problem was "a local affair" and referred them to the county board. The county said that it could not build a new school because there was no land available with a clear title, and the old site on the mountainside was too dangerous. Then, one night, a great storm blew up. Next morning the old schoolhouse was a pile of lumber at the bottom of the creek, and there was still no prospect...
...exhibition in 1912. A huge manufacturing combine, the Society of Russian Baltic Railroad Car Factories, financed him, and with consummate confidence he set out to build the biggest flying machine the world had ever seen. It was "the Grand," the first four-engine transport plane in history?a magnificent affair with a glassed-in cabin, a dining table and an outside observation platform from which Sikorsky liked to admire the clouds as his creation lumbered through the air at 60 miles an hour...
...Winston himself was not around to hear the Queen speak his words. He was home in bed working on a speech of his own, a far more orotund affair (see INTERNATIONAL) than the brief, ten-minute address he had given his sovereign. Both speeches reflected the same Churchillian hope: to keep the Tory government in command for its full term. "We were elected [in 1951] for a five-year period under what is called the Quinquennial Act," Churchill told the House of Commons that afternoon, rolling his tongue happily over the long, Latinate word. As outlined by the Queen...