Word: affairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...know. Another says the animal would be rendered unconscious. Still another insists that the animal would be bowled over, at least knocked to its knees. Personally, I would as soon hit a brick wall with my fist as the cow's forehead, and it is my opinion the affair would all in all be a very sorry one for the fist engaging in said fisticuffs, with no effect besides possibly a slight headache for the other side...
...Chautauqua Secretary Wallace said he did not recall much about the affair. "I was too sleepy and tired to really know," he said. "I was expecting some kind of nutty performance...
...decidedly counter to TIME'S aims and standing ... to repeat and enlarge on a thing like this-"Thaw Perennial" [TIME, June 18]-when so many more interesting and profitable incidents are passed over or forgotten entirely. Why-oh why-should decent people be reminded continually of this shameful affair...
...granddaughter of William Thaw-the child of his eldest daughter by his first wife- I protest. There are able and conscientious members of this family whose lives have been frustrated if not blighted by this affair and its continual notoriety...
...Nazis' first acts, but his case has been carried to a higher court in which Son Colonel Oscar von Hindenburg has twice testified as a witness for Dr. Gereke. Well posted observers suspected President von Hindenburg of putting pressure on Chancellor Hitler to hush up the Gereke affair and of sending up a von Papen trial balloon to test the solidity of the Nazi State...