Word: affairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...still a Chinese resident. Main house of the Lins is in Canton, but her friends were members of the Hopei branch. Their "House of Exile" has been occupied by the family for only 35 generations, so the Canton Lins refer to them as "temporarily from home." A huge, rambling affair of one-roomed "houses" connected by courtyards and surrounded by a common wall, the House of Exile shelters a sizeable family (83 men, women, children) presided over by the Elder of the family, governed absolutely by ceremonial tradition. Big landowners, the Lins control 1,543 acres...
...United States does not even recognize, or Japan with which both the United States and England have been peremptory in the immediate past. That Russia should back Japan seems extremely unlikely because of the present developments; and in view of the League's past handling of the Sino-Japanese affair, trouble in the future is likely to receive little more than protest from that score; but Russia becoming officially embroiled in the Eastern question would immediately have the effect of starting the line-up of the sides in the struggle that is to come...
...general opinion of the members of the Harvard group that could be reached last night was that the whole affair was a pure hoax. But complete, detailed accounts of all the sessions held in Emerson 11 in 1925 are contained in a hundred-page report, "Margery Harvard Veritas." Although signed statements of the professors testify to the fact that there was no trickery involved, the final verdict of the group was that the phenomena were not well-attested boxes on the professors laps, megaphones moved around the table, lights glowed, and "Margery" moved freely around in her compartment, although wired...
...troubles started. When he finally persuaded her to run off with him by night, the romantic row to the mainland nearly killed him. Then he found himself in the midst of a crazy colony of foreigners whose erotic antics were hardly a help in furthering his own love affair. Caterina remained so businesslike, not to say calculating, that Mr. Belfry was not nearly so great a sinner as he would have liked to be. But he had enough Anglo-Saxon marrow to keep from going completely spineless, and finally took himself back to Cambridge and a well-ordered life...
Coincident with the announcement of the selection of 17 members of the Freshman Jubilee Committee, it was learned from P. S. Weld '36, the recently appointed chairman, that a 20 per cent reduction in tickets has been made for the affair, which will be held on Friday, May 26. The prices are now $4 a couple, and $2.50 stag...