Word: affairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pageant is essentially an amateur flyers' affair, with enough open events to attract a few big-name professionals. Preludes to the meet were a night transcontinental race from Los Angeles and an ingenious ''treasure hunt." Some 70 sportsmen pilots entered the treasure hunt, sponsored by Pilot Bernarr Macfadden to advertise his Liberty magazine. The hunters were to start at St. Louis, hunt across country to Long Island for successive letters of LIBERTY spread in white cloth on the ground...
...Major van Rolleghem lighted a fierce fire beneath a full fuel tank made of his secret substance. Tank & contents remained intact. He put a box, containing a letter, into a fuel fire. The letter remained uncharred. Then came Major van Rolleghem's finale. He stepped into a boxlike affair supposed to be a cockpit. Gasoline was sloshed against the front wall and ignited. The whirling propeller of a nearby airplane fanned the flames to terrific heat, but they failed to scorch the major...
...satisfactory material for the cinema. As adapted by Jane Murfin it briefly shows Ann Yickers (Irene Dunne) at the start of her career, coolly fencing off the admiration of a clownish confrère and a suave young barrister (Conrad Nagel). It deals more comprehensively with her wartime love affair with Captain Resnick (Bruce Cabot). After these preliminary romances and Ann's brief, unhappy experience as a prison-executive, the picture launches enthusiastically into the matter of her liaison with Judge Barney Dolphin (Walter Huston...
...this time Floyd Dell "was, and remained incurably. romantic about women." He had had his first serious love affair before he left Davenport, his first marriage before he left Chicago. Like a theme-song through his reminiscences runs the refrain: "And then I fell in love again." Dell and his inamoratas usually parted friends. ''We both cried a little when we said goodbye. We told each other how happy we had been. Like frightened and lonely children, we kissed and parted." All this gave him something of a reputation among his fellow-bohemians. and even began to scare...
Back in the city again, he found, not greatly to his surprise, that he had been forgotten by his much-makers. He still had a good deal of money, and when he discovered that the real hero of his fire had been completely overlooked, he tried to set the affair to rights. But partly because the other man was a Communist, partly because Charlie's story was now old stuff, no one would pay any attention to him. He looked for Ida, but the cinema studios knew her not. Eventually, of course, he found her again; and the upshot...