Word: affairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard -- Yale game November 21. The dance, which will last from 5 until 7 o'clock, in reported to be in response to popular demand, and has the approbation of Dolmar Leighten '17, dean of the first year class, and Matthew Luce '91, regent of the University. The affair, the first of its kind and, if successful, a possible class function in the nature of a fall supplement to the Freshman Jubilee of the spring, is made possible by the new conditions of the first year life in the yard and Union...
...windows and drove before her the fluttering mosquitoes. She never alluded to the subject afterward, neither reported nor reproved us, for she wisely reasoned that the charm in all we were doing was the daredevil character of the performance, and that if it was treated as a very commonplace affair, this charm would soon be gone...
...West Indies, educated in London and "not a Chinese at all" according to his enemies, said on landing at Shanghai, "I believe in facing facts. Japan's position in Manchuria is a fact. China, having no military force,* must depend on diplomatic means to settle the Manchurian affair. China must ally herself with nations willing to cope with the Japanese Imperialists...
...fallen in love with a seaman, Brant. It does not take long to find out that Brant is a Mannon, too. His father was Ezra's uncle, who got a hired girl in trouble, had to marry her and leave town. Lavinia, who finds out about the affair, loathes her mother a little bit more, threatens to tell her father about it unless Christine dismisses Brant. Out of this situation arises the first of Mourning Becomes Electra's four deaths. Tired of war, sick, wishing to patch it up with his wife, Ezra returns. It is hard...
...institute of Arts and Sciences, Brooklyn, N. Y. recently found Sinclair Lewis, novelist, in a 'destructive mood." The world was just too exciting for words, that is almost so. First, take the British elections, a fiery affair that. Then there was that "delightful possibility" of war in the Far East. Just think of it. There may actually be a war, and then think what an exciting time everyone will have. Mr. Lewis is right. It is an exciting world. People may actually be starving to death. What...