Word: affairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trying to obtain control of the Ford concern. Certain of my competitors are operating against me, supported by these bankers, with the object of preventing another Ford car from leaving the factory. . . . They succeeded for a few hours. . . . I am going straight out now to clean up the whole affair...
...FredD Ireland '33, A. W. Todd '35, and H. R. Woodard '33. In releasing the date and committee for the dance, H. S. Wood '33 chairman of the house committees, stated that as yet no definite arrangements had been made; the early selection of committee and date for the affair is to enable the committee to work up all necessary details, and to allow members of the House, and their guests, ample time for their plans for this weekend, which comes the week which will he the one following the final Yale hockey game...
...members of the Harvard faculty desire to help the Cambridge unemployed by voluntary contributions, that is entirely their own affair. The school committee by implying that an obligation exists where there is none has taken a very efficient means of injuring its own cause. Whether or not the request receives the sanction of President Lowell on his return, any contributions received from individual professors should be recognized as private acts of charity which do not in any way indicate that the University as a Corporation, is involved...
...businessman stationed in Antwerp, squires them through Belgium, hopes to join them for a few days in England. But business keeps him in Antwerp till Pauline's boat has sailed, so he keeps the date with Marta alone. They have a mildly amorous affair, with no strings attached, and part, perhaps forever. All the time, however, they are really in love with different people, figures out of the past, some of whom they share...
...distinguished specimen of an all too frequent type of politician. Neither stupid nor unenlightened himself, he has not hesitated to pander on several pander on several occasions to the trivial and the vicious aspects of his electorate. This is not the first example of his interference in the affairs of the University of Oklahoma beyond the proper limits. His conduct while a possible nominee of the Democratic party was that of a mountebank seeking popular applause at any price. Certainly the action of the University authorities in the flogging case should have ended the affair. The Governor's interference...