Word: affairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...love-making was with his more mature cousin Evelyn. In Paris, at 18, he thought he was in love with Margaret, a proper young hypocrite whom he kissed in the woods beyond St. Cloud. His mother's sudden death in a carriage accident put an end to that affair for a while. Then he went to Italy, where his tourist impressions were noted with great care, and finally to the Mediterranean island of Aeaea, "twelve hours from Naples," which is mythical. Mythical or not, there he met Katharina, "Katha" for short, and not much later they were swimming naked...
...tournament is to be a singles affair only, and no other type of play has yet been contemplated. A charge of $.25 will be made for each contestant, which will go towards purchasing a prize for the winner...
Storm at Daybreak (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). What would have become of Hollywood without the War is appalling to imagine. When gangsters, showgirls, Broadway colyumists and the inmates of reformatories are momentarily exhausted, there is always the Archduke Ferdinand and the affair at Sarajevo. With this as a starting point, Storm at Daybreak relates the tragic romance of a man who falls in love with his best friend's wife, played to the limit against an Austro-Serbian background and splendidly directed by Richard Boleslavsky...
Unfortunately, when this straightforward burlesque starts the film is half over. Earlier and duller footage develops a love affair between Roulien, an Argentinian with a heavy boulevard manner, and wistful Gloria Stuart. Best of the numerous songs he sings about her is called "I'll Build a Nest." Funniest shot: Edna May Oliver, head of the Academy of Medical Science, gravely superintending the manu facture of a synthetic...
When the College first opened in 1638, Nathaniel Eaton, a graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge, was appointed headmaster. He shepherded his pupils into a rude wooden building, the foundations of which were uncovered in building the Harvard Square subway terminal. But Eaton's school was a miserable affair, a boarding-school of Oliver Twist pupils and Fagan-like masters, and Eaton himself was removed in two years for assaulting a "Young gentleman" with a club. This rough frontiersman-teacher kept a diary, in which he related how he set out 30 apple trees "in the Yard," literally the backyard...