Word: affairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sweden's currency management is a very conservative affair. The "manager" is the Swedish Riksbank's Governor Ivar Rooth, who has far fewer powers than the U. S. Federal Reserve now has. Studious, young (46) Governor Rooth's first objectives were to prevent inflation and keep prices stable inside Sweden. By May 1932. with inflation averted, Governor Rooth attacked his third objective-to raise the level of wholesale prices slowly and firmly, without increasing the cost of living. He cared nothing for what foreigners were willing to pay outside for Swedish kronor, except as foreign exchange affected...
...poverty-laden unknown of 26, she a settled matron of 31, with three children, married to a Nottingham University professor. Lawrence went to tea, to call on the professor. He met Frieda instead, and they fell in love almost at first sight. Frieda tried to have an affair with him, but he insisted on all or nothing; finally she left her husband and children, went to Germany with Lawrence. Her family were horror-struck but she stuck to her choice. Eventually her husband gave her a divorce and she and Lawrence were married, but for a long time they lived...
...Italian track meet, Luigi Beccall, headlined 1500-meter star, has indicated a preference to run his event as a scratch affair rather than on a handicap basis. As the result Bay Esters, assistant dean in the Business School, Morton Jenkins of M.I.T., and Ben Hines of B.C. will start on even ground with the Olympic champion...
...parents of Fleur, the prostitute, were illiterate. French-Canadian mill hands, the father an alcoholic, the mother notoriously immoral. Fleur's first affair, when 11, was with the father of her mother's bastard. The family lived in squalid poverty, were chased from hovel to hovel, sometimes for not paying rent, sometimes for debauching the neighborhood. Fleur's adolescent peccadillos took place in cellars. Later she became a common street walker...
...family misfit, never gets along with the folks, hates the life to which she is condemned. When she is suspended from Normal School she makes her family miserable until they let her go to Manhattan. There she plunges into Greenwich Village, loses her irksome virginity, and has a desperate affair with a solid married man, who takes her to the Southwest and parts with her there. When they are both back in Manhattan again they drift inevitably together. But they can never marry, prefer not to think of the future...