Word: affairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...staged in the dining room from 10 to 2 o'clock. The price of tickets will be $3.00 per couple and $2.00 stag. Preceding the dance members of the House will be allowed to eat with their partners in the House dining room. The patronesses for the affair are: Mrs. Z. B. Adams, Mrs. Robert Saltonstall, Mrs. John P. Bowditch, Mrs. R. I. Cummings, Mrs. H. W. Palmer, and Mrs. Alexander Lincoln...
...Harry because he knew too much about his boss's secret business. Suzy left England in a hurry, took refuge in Paris. There she sang in a cabaret, shared a room with a fanatic Socialist, picked up geography, table manners and general intelligence from the quickening Parisian atmosphere. Her affair with a handsome French nobleman was purely platonic until he went to the front; then she discovered she was no platonist. She flew to his side as he lay wounded in a hospital, but Mata Hari was there before...
...concert will be free to all members of Lowell House, according to John H. Eric '37, who is in charge of the affair, while for all guests a fee of $.50 per head will have to be paid. Ladies may be brought to dinner on this special occasion, while room permission is to be granted until 8 o'clock...
Investor Clark, in Paris, freely admitted trying to get General Butler to use his influence with the Legion against dollar devaluation, but stoutly declared: "I am neither a Fascist nor a Communist, but an American." He threatened a libel suit "unless the whole affair is relegated to the funny sheets by Sunday...
...Jones buttonholed Mr. Van Sweringen in the lobby for a heart-to-heart. The trustees insisted that some reorganization plan be presented. The protective committees insisted that this was no time to reorganize. It was announced that further powwows would be held. After what he called "about the dullest affair" he had attended in a long time, Jesse Jones went back to Washington to complain: "No one had a plan...