Word: affairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tammany politicians, ousted Jan. 1 from civic power, last week sat down in Manhattan's Hotel Commodore to a meal which in other years they proudly called a ''victory dinner." Two incidents made the affair front-page news...
...biggest that could possibly be squeezed in. At their Brooklyn. N. Y. plant the Wheelers proceeded to build a 54-footer, serenely aware that nobody could steal the show from them. With salty, side-whiskered Father Howard Ernest Wheeler looking on, the big cruiser, a yacht-like affair with flying bridge and twin screws, was warped into place with less than a foot to spare. Crowds stood in line to go aboard and gape at her two staterooms with yellow brocaded bedspreads; her tiled shower with hot and cold water; her three toilets, her spacious saloon; her dining nook...
...Parnassus. Step by step, but with a fatherly eye more on priggish Myron than on piggish Ora, Author Lewis reports their slow, vicissitudinous careers. Ora finds the fleshpots of Greenwich Village agree with him. He writes one good but unsuccessful novel, the fruit of a brutally selfish love affair with a mulatto girl. Then he supports himself in uneven luxury by literary hackwork (including begging letters), borrowing, sponging. Eventually he develops a flair for playwriting. makes a tidy fortune, goes to Hollywood...
...dance last week was a sorry affair. The Salome was big Goeta Ljungberg who created some illusion so long as she stayed in her blood-red wrapper. When she started nervously shedding veils, feebly wriggling her abdomen, the audience was as uncomfortable as she. But she got her reward. Into the cistern went the executioner. For a minute only the double-basses were heard, shuddering as if they could see the head fall, the blood gush. Then the executioner's black arm ap peared holding the platter and what seemed to be a wad of cheesecloth...
...prefer to consider our relations with Russia in as simple a light as possible, instead of trying to make them a complicated affair. There is nothing very complex in trying to maintain friendly relations with one's neighbors, which is essentially the administration's purpose in making the move...