Word: affairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Peace societies the country over have justly protested the whole affair; it is defended only for being an important military experiment. Yet even the military need of such maneuvers can be questioned, when similar but smaller attacks at Hartford, London, and continental cities have convincingly proved that there is no adequate defense against attack from above. Aside from that, the psychology of the demonstration can have only the worst effects. Such shows of militarism are among the greatest existent creators of false patriotism and war-mindedness; in a few months, years of tedious labor by conferences and Leagues of Nations...
Cincinnati's Festival is of outstanding importance for several reasons: It is one of the oldest of U. S. festivals, started in 1873 by Conductor Theodore Thomas. It is a colossal affair, involving many amateur singers (610 grownups this year, 703 school children), besides the Cincinnati Symphony and imported soloists. The programs are meticulously prepared and the performances attended by social pomp corresponding to that which Manhattan and Chicago bestow on their opera. Cincinnati newspapers devote columns to describing the costumes of local dowagers and debutantes...
...able musicomedy firm of De Sylva, Brown & Henderson, and containing one song that ought to be a hit, this picture is not, except for moments when Gloria Swanson sings, a musicomedy, but a legitimate drawing room piece with a bright idea. Miss Swanson's indiscretion-a love-affair with that cad, Monroe Owsley-gives her trouble later when she is in love with the worthy Ben Lyon and finds her young sister in Owsley's toils. There are bad stretches of development: the meeting between Lyon and Swanson, a giggling scene with Swanson and Barbara Kent that...
...following is the list of patronesses for the affair: the mesdames J. S. Ames, H. L. Bailey, L. T. Brown, D. S. Byers, Zechariah Cafee Jr., W. A. Dupee, E. F. Fish, R. M. Gallagher, F. G. Goodale, B. H. Hayes, B. S. Hurlbut, W. E. Ladd, Lindsley Loring, E. F. McClennen, L. W. McGuire, George Megrew, C. G. Mixter, H. M. Pearson, W. L. Pierce, W. C. Queriby, H. H. Richardson, G. B. Roorbach, P. L. Spanlding, N. R. C. Stephenson, M. L. Talbot, P. M. Tucker, Eliot Wadsworth, Charles Walcott, John Ware, C. E. Ware...
...time with a group of undistinguishable cronies who drink a greal deal and generally do not amount to much. Dan's kindly Uncle Mark is sympathetic when the young man confesses a longing for another summer at Fawn Lake, the resort where, during a previous summer, his love affair with Lois had begun...