Word: affairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...means the only requirements for being a de Laszlo subject. You will also need $14,000 if you want a really first-rate product, full length, executed with all the Sargentesque splendor at his command. For $10,000 you can have a neat three quarter length affair, much on the order of the Hoover portrait which de Laszlo finished last week. For $3,000 he may consent to do a sketch, a little like the one of Mrs. Hoover, warm, sympathetic and technically graceful, but without much detail. Naturally, these qualifications are likely to belong to notables. Last week...
...Barry is a product of what was called the Yale Literary Renaissance, a microscopic affair which began vigorously with Stephen Vincent Benet, John Farrar, Thornton Wilder et al. but was soon washed from the campus in an ocean of afternoon tea. The War took Philip Barry to the U. S. Embassy at London because weak eyes kept him out of military service. The desire to write plays took him back to the 47 Workshop. The need to make a living temporarily shunted him into the advertising business (McCann-Erickson, Inc.). When he heard that The Youngest, his first professionally produced...
Discussing the Manchurian situation, Professor Kennelly said: "Judging from the attitude in Japan, one would find it difficult to believe that anything out of the ordinary were happening, for the Japanese people speak very little about the situation, the whole affair being in the hands of the government, which is all-powerful...
...hearings of the 65th Council of the League of Nations as it met, first in Geneva, and later in Paris, to discuss the Sino-Japanese problem. This repetition of the Council hearings is to be given at Agassiz Hall, Radcliffe, on January 28, at 2 o'clock; the affair is being sponsored by the League of Women's Voters and by the Educational Committee of the League of Nations Association...
Tickets for those not connected as members or otherwise with either of the organizations that are sponsoring the affair on January 28 are obtainable in Cambridge at the offices of the Cambridge League of Women Voters at 42 Brattle Street, at a price of $.75 each...