Word: affairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...executed for espionage during the War, says that she was unable to break herself of the habit of taking off her clothes at crucial moments and was therefore naked when she faced a French firing squad. This episode is omitted from the Greta Garbo version of the affair, which ends as Miss Garbo, majestic in black, is walking down a long corridor between two lines of soldiers. Her lover (Ramon Novarro) is a blind aviator who has said good-by to her under the impression that her prison is a hospital and that she is leaving him to undergo...
...thinks the worst of him, realizes that she is vulnerable, doubts if he is, but she lets him have his way. When they return to Paris she goes to live with him. Her recapture is so complete that from her point of view the inconclusive conclusion is satisfactory. Their affair has weathered storms, has not yet gone on the inevitable rocks...
...game, which is scheduled for 8.30, should be a closely contested affair, for the Toronto stickmen are conquerors of the strong Yale sextet by a 4 to 0 score, and tied Princeton in a hard-fought game which had to be called on account of a mysterious mist which settled over the ice in Madison Square Garden, where the game was played...
...Fraley had shipped together since they were young men; eventually Fraley became commander of the ship Spenlove engineered. Fraley, of the incoherent bulldog breed, needed a lot of help when it came to women. Fidus Achates Spenlove supplied it. But in spite of him, Fraley's long and serious affair with a Manhattan girl went up in smoke. Then the War took them to the Mediterranean. In Salonika Fraley acquired a pleasant French mistress, Theroigne, left her flat when he saw her younger sister Francine. Francine was beautiful but had an ungovernable temper; when Theroigne tried to get Fraley back...
...Bridge expert; has affair with sister of brother's wife; age 18; wife left him several times; last time two months ago; wealthy...