Word: affairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...early account of this affair which I read in the Philadelphia papers called attention to disparity of size & weight of the assaultee & assaulted. Had this photographer been a burly six-footer would he have been handled in this summary manner? Incidentally Young Roosevelt has received more publicity than having himself photographed. I voted for his father...
...Millen boys with a brand new show. The machinery of American justice is dusted off, set up and bolted together, and set to running with its familiar squeaks and rattles. The man from Mars reading our papers will judge, rightly, that the most popularly important aspect of an affair of wholesale murder and robbery is the fact that pretty Norma bumped her knee on a cell door...
Tickets for the affair; which is restricted to members of the House and their personal guests, will go on sale Monday. Supper will be served at midnight. The dining room will be converted into a lounge and together with the common room and terrace will be decorated under the direction of Robert Gardner-Medwin...
...years in prison, which he never served, fleeing to Mexico instead. During the War he turned up in the Verdun trenches, fighting under an assumed name. Later he appeared as a character in the Oustric bank failure. Last month French justice, smarting under charges of laxity in the Stavisky affair, hauled him into court, sentenced him again on his ancient swindle charge. In 15 years Henri Rochette has lost most of his spirit; he wanted only to be left alone. He lost his appeal last week. The original sentence of two years in jail was upheld...
Peace for a Jewish fammily was something unknown when Bloch grew up in Geneva. The community was strongly Gentile, still seething from the Dreyfus affair. In his home Bloch learned Jewish melodies, Jewish lore. There was money enough for him to study for a time in Brussels, Frankfurt, Munich, Paris. Then his father's jewelry business soured and he went home to peddle cuckoo-clocks. In 1916 Bloch landed in the U. S., as accompanist for Maud Allen, a dancer whose tour ended disastrously in Ohio. Bloch took a room in Manhattan. He was penniless but in his trunk...