Word: affairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...integral part of the story, Lionel Barrymore plays a sniveling old Confederate veteran, full of pride, a musty love affair and corn whiskey. Best shot: Barrymore, under the delusion that he is again commanding troops in the field, shouldering his cane, marching off down the great hall to shoot himself dead in the back yard. Silliest shot: a ball at Connelly Hall immediately after the First Battle of Bull Run attended by President Davis and Generals Lee, Jackson and Beauregard...
...acted too hastily. They do not know exactly what they want now but they are earnest and sincere and something will grow out of it." Other university officials pooh-poohed the revolt, urged Durham newspapers to ignore it. But many a student and restive alumnus saw more to the affair than a youthful outburst, more to the rumored faculty unrest than the squabbles and jealousies which beset every university administration. Back of it all, they said, was the refusal of Trinity-Duke's longtime ruling triumvirate - President William Preston Few, Vice President Robert Lee Flowers and Dean Wannamaker...
...arrested and spent a year in jail; Alexey left school and decided to become a writer. Meantime their father, with the best will in the world, was running through what was left of his estate. Alexey's reminiscent story ends with the beginning of his first serious love affair. As epilog he tells of the funeral in exile of one of Russia's Grand Dukes. Of the interval that cost him his country and irrevocably removed his youth, he says nothing. Author Bunin, like all good Russian authors, writes with a reverent simplicity which only a natural dignity...
...stories released concerning him and his mother, was, and still is, considered a masterpiece in the art of handling publicity? I have nothing against him for this, it shows good business sense. The only complaint that I and so many others have is his continual hypocrisy about the whole affair of being in the public eye, his affected and transparent dislike for publicity, and his over-emphasis of the altruistic motive, as exemplified in the air-mail contracts wire. It is only too bad that he did not realize that he was going too far in sending this telegram...
...really regrettable feature of the whole affair is that the men involved can be punished only by annulling their contracts and thereby causing them financial loss. It does not speak well for our society that a man can rob the government of millions of dollars and get away scot-free, when others are sentenced to long terms for offenses which are slight by comparison. Still worse than this is the fact that those who have committed the worst crime of all, betrayal of a public trust, are apparently not even to be prosecuted; on Postmaster General Brown and his assistant...