Word: affairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Vice President Curtis found himself mixed up with this sorry affair in two ways: 1) His cut-rate Mayflower residence led to a suspicion that Mr. Moore was trying to use him for political protection; 2) the 1928 Curtis-for-President campaign was conducted from headquarters in the Mayflower where one Al Gross, who served a term in Sing Sing for robbery, was active enough to get his picture taken with Candidate Curtis. Always touchy on the subject of his Mayflower residence, the Vice President of late has been flying into a blazing rage at any query about his connection...
...Phillips Brooks House Class Day Spread, an affair which the organization gives each year in honor of the graduating class, is scheduled to be held this year from 5 to 7 o'clock on Class Day, next Tuesday, June 16. It is planned to precede the dance which will take place in the evening at Lowll House...
...facts involved that if Pullman Conductor Edward English had used a little tact and common sense and dealt with the porter as though he was a human being and not struck him in the face with his fist after questioning him which provoked the fight, the whole unhappy affair could have been avoided. A. PHILIP RANDOLPH...
With Captain McGrath, Wood, and Mays, absent because of examinations, a patchwork Harvard team looked anything but impressive for six innings, when against the masterly pitching of F. B. Cutts '58, who had defeated them. 7 to 2 in the annual affair last year. While his teammates collected eight runs, a homer by Sullivan in the second, another in the fifth, and two more on Chauncey's single in the sixth, and a total of four in the seventh when they batted around, Cutts allowed the Harvard team but three scattered hits. He weakened in the seventh and eighth...
...THOUSANDS GONE-John Peale Bishop-Scribner ($2.50).* Not only in biography but, more significantly, in fiction U. S. writers are more & more turning to U. S. subjects. And to a generation that is still scraping off the mud and blood of the War to End War the comparatively chivalrous affair between North and South has an increasingly romantic appeal. These five short stories, with one exception, are tales of the Civil War from the Southern point of view. A Southern farmer comes home to find his mother's grave ripped open by Yankee raiders. He traps them...