Word: affairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...though Lucile Lingard (Lily Cahill), who found romance and a young English poet while visiting Europe, might let Miss Crothers down. But when Lucile, and later the poet, return to the solidarity of the homeland, and when Lucile's husband so patently demonstrates his "great, selfless love," the affair subsides...
...would provide many such instances but I would like to mention that Daniel Webster apologized to Spain for the defacing of a portrait of Queen Isabella in New Orleans and that Seward, upon the advice of Lincoln and Sumner, made a similar gracious gesture to England in the "Trent Affair." Possibly these two secretaries of state could claim a 5? rating in our history...
Unlike his grandsire Edward VII, Edward of Wales does not carry about his own chips and baccarat paraphernalia in his luggage, nor does he insist on playing in homes where he is a guest. The 1890 affair revealed that Queen Victoria's eldest son had these habits when it brought the then Prince of Wales into court to testify against a British officer who had been caught cheating H. R. H. by three male witnesses and two females...
Head of the new government, a stop-gap affair patched up in Lima until Arequipa could be heard from, was, last week, Chief Justice Ricardo Leoncio Elias of Peru's Supreme Court. So devoid of ambition is Col. Sanchez Cerro that less than a month ago he announced that "by unanimous solicitation of the people" he would be the only candidate at Peru's next presidential election...
...Since the affair is to be built by a commission, I can not see how one with such individual ideas as Mr. Wright could work with it. Our projects are meant to represent a fair cross section of something or other about modern architecture in America and it would be too difficult to harness Mr. Wright to our general ideas...