Word: affairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Plans for a Lowell House dance to be held after the Princeton game have conflicted with those of Julian L. Coolidge '95, Master of Lowell House, who has arranged another affair for the same evening...
...songs. He thinks "Venus, My Shining Star" (1894) is his best, but the U. S. public still prefers "Over There" (1917). Last week George M. Cohan turned out another song, for a huge benefit for German-Jewish refugees from Nazidom, held in Manhattan's Yankee Stadium. The affair was called "Night of Stars" and so was Mr. Cohan's song...
...kind of hearty country life to which Tony was wedded. When John Beaver, a beautiful specimen of the unpopular sponger, spent a weekend with them. Brenda amused herself by being nice to him. One thing led to another and soon Brenda found herself having a full-time affair with the not-too-enthusiastic Beaver, while innocent Tony moped for her at home. The sudden death of their little son brought Brenda into the open. She announced to the stunned Tony that she was in love with Beaver, wanted a divorce and a lot of alimony-so much, in fact, that...
...pleading with a freshman for his laundry contract. The man was put out of the dormitory and Colonel Apted issued a warning to all concerned that the University's rule against canvassing the dormitories would be upheld. Neither the culprit nor Apted and anything to say about the affair but the ultimatum was issued. Solicitors beware...
Young Franz's first serious love affair was with Marie Catherine, Countess d'Agoult, a beauteous unmusical mother of three, whose elderly husband bored her. The year was 1833. She was 28, he, 22. They ran away to Geneva, spent eleven years of romantic vagabondage interrupted only by his concert tours. She bore him three illegitimate children of whom Cosima (named after Lake Como) was to achieve fame by deserting her devoted husband to marry his dearest friend, Richard Wagner...