Word: affairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...water. Spy scares are thicker than crabs on the cape. A Soviet patrol was reported to have surprised them, shot them down. In Moscow Japanese Ambassador Tamekichi Ota instantly demanded permission for the Japanese Consul at Petropavlovsk to board the Japanese destroyer Tachikaze, visit the scene of the affair and make a report. It was refused on the grounds that the Tachikaze was a warship, but the Consul was given permission to go on any civil vessel...
...German questioned had merely read about the raid in the Nazi Press. A foreign official claimed actual possession of a copy of the leaflets but lamely explained: "The Government has no interest in spreading such insults." British correspondents in dispatches telephoned to London were first to brand the whole affair as a complete Hitlerite lie to ballyhoo National Aviation Week, which in Germany is this week...
...complex. He has given Verdi's spectacular opera in Egypt at the foot of the pyramids, in Mexico City's bull ring, in dozens of open-air stadiums. He uses elephants, camels, horses. The Hippodrome venture started out as an all-Aïda affair. Some 10,000 passes were given out for the first performances but to the management's amazement hundreds had to be turned away from the boxoffice. Passes were discontinued but people went on fighting to get into the Hippodrome (nearly 6,000 cap ). The repertoire was enlarged to include other standard operas...
...Artists. A morose and timidly salacious study of the life and loves of a saloon keeper's daughter (Barbara Stanwyck), it shows her flirting to get a job in a bank, rolling an eye at the department manager, arousing the lower nature of the cashier, finally having an affair with the vice president. The cashier shoots the vice president and himself, leaving Lily Powers to marry the president. Most spurious shot: Lily's change of heart in the last reel- when she has deserted her president-husband and started for Paris with most of the funds which...
...Days." "The most ones of our officers had sweathearts, but I was to yang and to inconstant to bound me with a gerl; prefair to flay from one to a other, as a butterflay who flay from one flower to a other one." Later he had many a protracted affair-with Angelina, with Olga, with his Aunt Emma, with Lili. "the noty gerl" who betrayed him for another...