Word: affairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President of the U. S. opened last week. With the Cabinet Dinner and the Diplomatic Reception, President & Mrs. Roosevelt started their annual round of state parties in the White House. Red-haired young Mrs. Ickes in vivid green satin shot with silver was a cynosure at the Cabinet affair, her official debut. The diplomats' party glittered with the uniforms of chargés d'affaires but only ten out of 19 Ambassadors were present: Mexico's Francisco Castillo Najera was absent in Lima; German Hans Dieckhoff had been called home; moose-tall Sir Ronald Lindsay, dean...
...note. The officers were reminded that the White Russian court had previously acquitted Skobline of charges that he was on the Soviet payroll and had had a hand in the abduction of General Alexander Paul Koutiepoff (TIME, April 14, 1930). Skobline denied any knowledge of the de Miller affair and walked out of the meeting. He was never seen again...
...affair of today will be a noon banquet, Lampoon men expressed the hope that there would be no repetition of what happened at the Yale Record a short while ago. The Record had invited the Lampoon to a friendly meal but the Harvard comedians found that they were expected to ante $1.50 rental and were so annoyed about the way the thing was being handled that they appropriated considerable silverware...
After the first few minutes of the second period, the game, which began as a slow, close-checking affair, began to open up, and from then on it was fast, exciting hockey all the way through. Brilliant saves by Freedley, who replaced Mittell as netminder early in the game, were the only thing that prevented the Olympics from scoring at least twice in the last period. Most spectacular of these came when he dropped his stick to catch a well-placed penalty shot from the stick of Cliff Thompson, Olympic forward and former Stoneham star...
Although the Olympics lost to Yale on Saturday, they present a formidable line-up of former college and scholastic stars and will enter the game as favorites to take over Hodder's charges. Their New Haven defeat, a close 4 to 3 affair featured by two Olympic goals in the last four minutes of play, was not indicative of the Olympics' potential strength...