Word: affair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PLAYHOUSE (shown on Fridays). The Lady with the Dog is a Russian film based on Anton Chekhov's 19th century story of. . . love affair between a middle-aged banker and a beautiful young lady with a white Pomeranian...
Magraw said before the committee met, "The push for the Friday extension [in the Fall] was a slick, behind-the scenes affair, low-key and rational." He thought that the Palazzo movement was "just the opposite," cramping the committee's style. "It's not that I like it that way," the HUC head said later. "That is just the way the Masters work. It's regrettable, but that is the way we have to approach this thing to get changes...
...town meeting, attended by just 50 students, turned out to be a dull affair. There were four or five slightly different proposals made to institutionalize the town meeting and to give the House the right to make its own social rules. But the town meeting wasn't official and nothing came...
...would be pleased if the Duke and Duchess of Windsor could come to England from the U.S. to attend the dedication next month in Marlborough House of a memorial plaque to the Duke's mother, the late Queen Mary. It was, said the palace, strictly a family affair. Nevertheless, it marked the first time since his abdication and marriage that the British crown has taken formal recognition of the former King's twice-divorced American wife-though the Duchess and the Queen did chat two years ago when they met at London Clinic, where the Duke was undergoing...
...More remarkably, both are Jews, but Victor does not know it and Philip pretends he isn't. It further develops that imperious Mrs. Weld, who has lavished attention, money and care on both boys, is a determined anti-Semite, and even though she herself has had a longtime affair with a Jew, she coldly tells Victor that he cannot marry her daughter because he is a Jew. This improbable situation is not redeemed by a literary skill that is no more than competent...