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Word: affairing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thus turned and the turning was the whole point of the Prime Minister's speech, but he had expressed himself like Humpty Dumpty.* A few minutes later, some 500 words further along, he told the House not to put too much trust in Sanctions to end "this melancholy affair" because "we have passed away from platitudes to an era of stark reality." This seemed to indicate another half turn of the Government on its firm pivot and the Prime Minister ended his speech with a clear conscience exactly where he and the Conservative Party had stood not only before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Hoare Crisis | 12/30/1935 | See Source »

...Roosevelt drove out to address the Faculty Women's Club of Howard University (Negro). The dusky clubwomen had to threaten to call the police to keep Negro newshawks and cameramen from crashing the party. In the confusion Mrs. Roosevelt found herself alone on the street after the affair. Gallantly Negro Edgar C. Brown, CCC press-agent who has a bushy Vandyke beard, squired her to the White House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Roosevelt Week: Dec. 23, 1935 | 12/23/1935 | See Source »

...minds about how or whether to take him, Dorothy proposed a trial trip to Paris together-purely platonic. As the train pulled out of London's Victoria Station, according to his invariable custom Bennett changed to his "traveling hat"- "a round affair of tweed with a soft brim, peculiarly endearing." Records Dorothy Cheston: "I remember that I felt curiously responsible, as though I were traveling with bullion." In Paris something happened that decided her heart: every morning Bennett would call for her, bearing a bunch of white flowers which he had bought at a stall on the corner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wife's-Eye View | 12/23/1935 | See Source »

...came the News with: "The affair is a scandal and a disgrace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Chicago's Worst | 12/16/1935 | See Source »

Died. H. R. H. Princess Victoria Alexandra Olga Mary, 67, sister of George V; of stomach hemorrhage; at Coppins, Iver, Buckinghamshire. Princess Victoria's retired life and spinsterhood were popularly attributed to an early love affair with a man whom her rank forbade her to marry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 9, 1935 | 12/9/1935 | See Source »

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