Word: affairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...planning." Now were administered three enormous slugs of statistical dope which sent spectators away in droves and made the patient feel that, before having its liver cut out, it was at least going to have its red corpuscles counted one by one. Daily newspapers continued to headline the whole affair as the great "Monopoly Investigation" but Senator O'Mahoney made every effort to have the performance accepted as what he really hoped it would be: the soul-searching seance of the Century, without a major operation...
...troupe of touring American footballers coached by Jim Crowley of Fordham put on an exhibition before 2,000 gaping Frenchmen at Parc de Princess Stadium Saturday and the sports pages today were full of the affair...
...Most Americans do not have the sense of being in the midst of a world crisis as Europeans do," he stated. "They think the trouble of Communism, Fascism, and Nazlism is a European affair...
...serious note in the affair was supplied by Miss Ethel T. Heller, chairman of the sponsoring committee, who made a stirring plea in behalf of Chinese democracy. Around her neck, Miss Heller wore a picture of herself taken at the age of three. She refused to have her picture taken again and furiously staved off the socially-conscious Harvard boys bent on mobbing the dressing room...
...affair, which culminated in a series of eight broken windows in Straus, was called to the attention of the Dean's office, and disciplinary action has been taken, it was learned last night...