Word: affairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Leverett made a Short Speech in Latin to the Governor then Sir Holyoke made an Oration in Latin. In the Next place, Mr. Danforth Minister of Dorchester went to prayer; in the Last place part of the 132. Psalm was Sung; (closed with the Gloria Patri) and thus the Affair was ended...
Addresses by leaders in undergraduate extra-curricular activities will feature a meeting sponsored by the Phillips Brooks House Association this evening at 7.30 o'clock. The affair, which is an annual event, will be the final reception of "Freshman Week-end" and will take place in Peabody Hall of Phillips Brooks House...
...shallow well, he saw in the water beneath his own reflection "the ragged black face of a man, newly murdered." But he was thirsty and drank "gratefully." Just returned to England at the outbreak of the Boer War, Talbot went back again as war correspondent. A slow-healing love affair drove him to Siberia, where he shot an ovis nivicula (mountain sheep), and a new species later named in his honor ovis cliftoni. He was stabbed by a drunken Cossack servant, rested a while at Verkhoyansk, coldest spot on earth. A fellow-traveller, Scientist Hertz, sent him some frozen flesh...
...cook has dropped the aspic, learns that her husband has an incurably bad heart. Some of her guests never do arrive. The Ferncliffes, "those miserable cockneys," have their secretary telephone to say they have left town. Larry Renault, the actor, harassed by poverty, conceit and a futile love affair with Paula Jordan, has committed suicide in his hotel room...
...building for his men, snorted: "That's one of your damned follies." Last big row in which Butler was the central figure came in 1929, when he was arrested and ordered court-martialed for retailing an anecdote in which Mussolini figured as a hit-and-run driver. The affair passed off with a reprimand, but in October 1931, having been passed over for Commandant of the Marine Corps although he was the ranking officer, Scrapper Butler finally left the Marines. But he concludes with hoarse defiance: "There's plenty of fight...