Word: affair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...LEGEND surrounding old John Ringling is a hard one to live up to. His ambition and drive helped build the Ringling show up from a family affair with four performers and one wagon to "the greatest show on earth," with 1,200 horses, 2,000 employees, a zoo-car circus train. Ringling's favorite saying was "I've got no use for midgets." He liked big, eye-catching things. He bought thousands of acres of land in Minnesota, Oklahoma, Wisconsin and Florida. He built a bank, a hotel and two huge, Italianate palaces in & around Sarasota, speculated...
...Affair of State. In Washington, Durham County, England, Schoolmaster Joseph Battle mailed a letter to the secretary of the local Road Safety Committee a block away, got the letter back two months later by way of the Chamber of Commerce, Washington...
...editors of "New Foundations" find enormous implications in the affair. It was "an effort to impose on all Harvard students. . .the system of lunch terror that is characteristic of the KKK." It "represents something now. Never before in the 300 year history of the school has such a violent white supremacy act taken place." Even further, "It is the bringing of the policy of genocide onto the campuses...
Dean Fassett had asked the court to continue the case until Tuesday, May 13, and the M.I.T. contingent was about to leave the courtroom when the patrolmen registered their complaints against him. Fassett requested a continuation in order to give Tech authorities time to investigate the affair...
...denied that the play has a fresh and entertaining twist on the popular subject of marital infidelity. The injured party, who is the "constant wife" of the title, not only knows about her husband's affair but actually approves of it. She expresses this unconventional view with some force and scores many points, over the other characters, all of whom, needless to say, are slavishly conventional. All of them--the friend in need, the moralizing mother, two different types of outraged husband, and several others--are put to the sword, and a good deal of genuine social satire results from...