Word: affairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hearings were Canada's equivalent of the U.S. Senate's bank investigating show, but they promised to be a far different kind of affair. After Parliament adjourned in May Premier Bennett, rich and pious Anglophile, often mentioned as candidate for a British peerage, was in London at the Economic Conference. There he got a famed Scotsman to head his banking commission: Hugh Pattison MacMillan, Baron of Aberfeldy...
...glory": the broken-hearted suicide of Sally with the question, "Why shouldn't you do what you want to once before you die?" This catapults the doomed tycoon on into marriage with the divorcee, into a brutal handling of a bloody strike, into his wife's affair with his son until, finally, full of "power and glory," peeled of self-respect, he dies by his own hand...
First air-wedding to be recorded, few years later, was that of a young Belgian aeronaut, Georges Raoul Thiel, and Madeleine Bailly. Their balloon, a primitive affair composed of gasbag and plain square basket, was named Lime de Miel ("Honeymoon"). The Thiels were married by the Brussels burgomeister in the public square, then cast off in the Lime de Miel to sail over the countryside, landing prettily in a cow pasture a few miles away...
...gave up the scheme when the Civil War broke out. (He organized and commanded a two-balloon air force for the Union Army.) A crowd of 6,000 cheered the take-off of the Jenkins-Boynton party from Manhattan's Central Park. The balloon was a gorgeous affair, the basket draped with red and gold damask, thickly carpeted, with a cushioned seat covered in green flowered satin. The cords from the bag were alternating red, white and blue, crossed by ropes of red and green. U. S. flags stuck out at all angles. Bride & groom were dressed magnificently. High...
Certainly he is not connected in any way with National Affairs. His only popularity is because he is the Chief Executive's son. By no stretch of the imagination could it be considered a National Affair, no more than John Doe's similar action could be considered...