Word: affairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Friday, November 18, the Glee Club will journey to New Haven, where they will participate that evening in a joint concert with the Yale Glee Club. This performance is an annual affair, which is held the evening before the Harvard Yale game, at the same place as the game...
...Johnson affair and the gag rulings that came as a result of it, have not received enough publicity. Violence has been done to the principle of academic freedom, for students and teachers both. The heads of City College will produce nothing by their foolish and repressive tactics, save more violence...
First the Nation's guest had to have the Order of Merit (1st class) plus the Grand Cordon of the Rising Sun with the gold & silver Medallion of the Rising Sun (with 31 rays) and the Imperial Paulownia Blossom, an affair of precious cloisonné. That was easy. Everything was easy in Tokyo last week for slightly rheumatic Guest Hsieh Kai-shih, snuff-taking Foreign Minister of Japan's new puppet state Manchukuo...
...Astonishing Reading." When Rufus Daniel Isaacs first saw India as a cabin boy it was because of an unsuccessful youthful love affair. When he next saw India as Viceroy it was because of a successful love affair. The second woman, Alice Edith Cohen, who became his first wife, persuaded him to leave a failing career as a stockbroker and study law. Colleagues rate him below his contemporaries Lord Birkenhead and Sir John Simon as a lawyer. They credit his industry (he got up at 4 a. m.), his wit and polish, his amazing memory for figures for the fact that...
...Washington's visit. With a procession, band concert and speeches was dedicated a commemorative plaque on University Hall. To all the guests were distributed facsimile copies of the old Providence Gazette & Country Journal. In the Brown Daily Herald next day was a startling editorial footnote to the affair: "Such an event would attract nationwide attention if it had occurred at Harvard, Yale, or other Eastern colleges. Why should these universities gain such favorable publicity while Brown lacks it? . . . Establish an effective publicity bureau with a full-time director...