Word: affairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...previous years, Harvard has found the hilly course at Nassau a frequent Waterloo, as the flat lay-out along the Charles had given the Mikkolamen no preparation for the gruelling hill-and-dale affair of the Tigermen. This year, however, Coach Jaakko had his men working out on the Brookline Country Club roughs and fairways, building up a stamina which proved the winning factor for the race...
...Honest Broker" between Britain and Italy, French Premier Pierre Laval has based all his efforts upon convincing His Majesty's Government that the Ethiopian war is no world-shaking matter on which the League's future or Britain's depends but a mere affair of "some localized area." Last week the appearance of this phrase in a speech by Squire Baldwin was a leading development. Though some excited citizens still put the issue to themselves in terms of the necessity of preserving Ethiopian independence at all costs, many a British citizen was commencing to ask himself last...
...gush of London society paragraphists. Going to press too early to catch the death of Lady Alice's father which makes it necessary to transform her marriage this week to George V's third son from a public function at Westminster Abbey into a quiet, private affair. The Motor took a knowing Rolls-Royce-eye-view of the royal nuptials thus...
...Morgan affair last week was significant because it pointed up sharply a major Fascist fact, seldom realized outside Italy, namely that under the Charter of Labor the proletariat of Italy is guaranteed rights so drastic that Capital must frequently pay through the nose. Not only journalists, though they are the most pampered, but Italian workers generally see that while Fascism has made striking a crime, it also punishes with heavy cash damages an employer who simply "fires" an employe because he feels like firing...
After amusing adventures in Spain which afterward provided Goethe with the theme for a play, Beaumarchais was attacked by a jealous nobleman whose mistress he had stolen. His release from prison after this scandalous affair made him a popular hero, since it was considered a triumph over arrogant nobles. His pamphlets and the success of The Barber of Seville made him famed. But he was still poor, and as a secret agent of Louis XVI, authorized to prevent the publication of damaging pamphlets, he printed others, then paid himself for destroying them. He was arrested by Queen Maria Theresa...