Word: affairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Budapest diva. Informed that her singing lacks warmth and emotion, she is glad when she falls in love with a young man who has been observed loitering hopefully near her front door. She visits him at his apartment and succeeds in her frank efforts to have an affair with him. The comedy in this part of the action resides largely in the fact that the opera singer thinks the young man is a gigolo while the audience is sure that he is not. In what corresponds to the last act of the play-when the opera singer has given...
...husband, found another pair in her lingerie drawer. Editor Frank Crownin-shield of Vanity Fair made a radio speech calling attention to Mrs. Culbertson's corsage of orchids. Author Ring Lardner, retained with upwards of 100 less celebrated newshawks and bridge addicts to report the affair, said: "The people of New York and vicinity have not been in such a fever of excitement since the night The Ladder closed." Faithfully reported were the first words of the match, spoken by Mrs. Culbertson after Lenz & Jacoby had won the cut and settled themselves North & South, respectively, of a walnut card table...
Liquidation of the firm will be easy, since inventories are low. Some 400 employees will be jobless. Mr. MacVeagh, prominent in many a charitable and civic affair, hinted he may devote his time to writing...
...recognition of their victory in the intercollegiates last month, the members of the cross-country squad will be tendered a dinner at the Harvard Club of Boston this evening. The sponsors of the affair are W. A. Barron '14, R. C. Floyd '10, H. S. Grew '24, and D. F. O'Connell Jr. '21, who formerly held posts on the Harvard graduate advisory track committee. Following the dinner, the members of the team will be presented with gold watch charms in the shape of running shoes...
...domestic reporting, leave After All with a tendency to remark: "What of it?" Margaret Perry, a pretty girl with eyes that turn up at the corners, easily turns in the best performance and if the actors had something to do or say in the last act the whole affair might have turned out differently. Dwight Deere Wiman, whose cruiser Moanin' Low commemorates his (and William A. Brady Jr.'s) highly successful production of the first Little Show, is the producer...