Word: affair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After dinner, the seniors and their escorts will dance to the music of Ken Reeves at the Spring Formal. Tickets for the affair are $2.50 per couple...
...century descendant Donald, whose passions are somewhat more restrained. Although neither part demands exceptional acting, Donat manages to lighten his burr to achieve the transition from Murdoch to Donald. Jean Parker, However, looking like an English Claudette Colbert, is only a routine love-sick heroine. Although her attempted love affair with the ghost is a change from the ordinary, she has no opportunity to show any talent...
...because "my wife and kids were crying and I couldn't stand it any longer." A Virginian wired the Boston police that Referee Rawson should be "charged with attempted homicide." In Los Angeles, ex-Welterweight Champion Barney Ross swore that he had never seen "such a brutal affair in a ring in all my life." Robert Christenberry, chairman of the New York State Athletic Commission, cried: "Everything we've done to make it a clean, competitive sport they've thrown to the wind. Where were the doctors? Why didn't they stop it quicker...
Cambridge police said they had picked up Scalese, Nickerson, and the two Sullivans at the corner of Church St. and Massachusetts Ave soon after the attack. The boys at first denied any knowledge of the affair, although Scalese had a fresh bite on his right knuckles...
John J. Cunningham 18, Henry Nickerson 19, John D. Sullivan 17, and Neil Sullivan 19 were convicted only of disturbing the peace. Judge Henry Morris sentenced the elder Sullivan to 30 days "because of his undoubted leadership in the whole affair." The others get 15 days...