Word: affairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...difficult situation of a young man named Ben Harvey, chosen as a dark horse candidate to compete for prosecuting attorney against the pompous Judge Rigby (Berton Churchill), father of the girl with whom he is in love. The ensuing contest results in a break-up of the love affair, leaving the audience in suspense as to the outcome. But in the end the difficulty is patched up in an unexpected but delightful manner. The antics of Stepin Fetchit add considerably to the humor of the picture throughout...
...solving this affair, the Bishop had recourse to the more exoteric passages of his criminal literature. He drew his deductions from such conventional clues as fingerprints and lipstick stains on glasses. He blinded the thieves with an old-fashioned puff of snuff. And by turning out the lights he tricked them into his cellar when they appeared at his manse in search of the loot he took from them. With the culprits incarcerated below stairs, His Lordship has time to disentangle a pair of lovers from the plot, send them off toward the altar before the curtain falls on this...
...that the Harvard Law Clubs accomplished the same function as the Yale system of groups of ten students, Dean Clark said, "It is probable that they do. The difference is that the clubs are voluntary organizations while we have raised the group system to the importance of a compulsory affair...
...House authorities have accepted the principle that the cheaper rooms should be allotted according to the ability to pay of the prospective inhabitant. Those who apply for cheap rooms should be given the same treatment as candidates for scholarships. Certainly the whole affair should be above-board. There is no need of a contest in bluffing...
...character but, asks Maurois, "Who hasn't?" He is sorry for Mrs. Dickens, believes that "to be a novelist's wife is truly dreadful," but thinks much should be left unsaid on both sides. As to Dickens' solacing himself with an actress, he thinks that affair "remained platonic and Dickensian-the love for the sylph." Maurois would prefer to draw more of a veil than even Dickens did over the whole business. "In any case, does it matter...