Word: affairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Never at any time in the affair did Stalin issue an order of any kind...
...Husband's Holiday" is a re-simmering of the free-soul theme in a middle-class milieu. Living in sin has seldom been more pedestrian. Miss Vivienne Osborne permits her husband, Mr. Clive Brook, to conduct his extra-martial affair with Miss Juliette Compton, knowing that he'll come home just as surely as Little Bo-Peep. There is little for the erring husband to choose between the two women, and Mr, Brook takes no great pleasure in either. Neither does the Playgoer. Best scene: Mr. Brook playing with the children's toy tracks...
After separating from her husband, Casimir Dudevant, the natural son of a Napoleonic baron, because of his excessive addiction to young ladies, George Sand turned to Jules Sandeau, with whom she collaborated on her first novel and from whom she took her pseudonym. The affair was short-lived. Returning from a visit to the country, she was surprised to discover that her fickle Jules had set up their laundress as his mistress in her apartment...
...There Goes the Bride. Incorrigible, bandy-legged Charles Winninger is the comedian. The music is the most ambitious attempt of Vincent Youmans, than whom Richard Rogers, George Gershwin, Cole Porter or Jerome Kern are no better. And yet, for all this talent, Through the Years remains a dreary, lifeless affair of lavender and old lace. You will sit through the better part of three acts before you hear a tune anything like the kind Composer Youmans wrote for Rainbow, Great Day, Hit the Deck cr Florenz Ziegfeld's Smiles. Best number in Through the Years is "Drums...
...conduct their rituals in St. Mark's in-the-Bouwerie. The Protestant Episcopal Diocese of New York began to twitter. In 1923 there was a famed dance service, celebrating the feast of St. Nicholas, which was erroneously reported in the Press as a "bare-leg, bare-hip affair." Actually it was performed by a troupe of respectable, well-clad Barnard girls. But Bishop William Thomas Manning refused to countenance Dr. Guthrie's practices, forbade any further goings-on. Dr. Guthrie stood his ground, went on giving ritual dances. In 1924 Bishop Manning ceased his episcopal visitations...