Word: affairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alfalfa Bill. A "common people's affair" was the inaugural of William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray as the State's ninth Governor. To the "Sage of Tishomingo" and the author of Oklahoma's Constitution the oath of office was administered by his father, Uriah Dow Thomas Murray, 91, a special notary for the occasion. Governor Murray put aside the baggy wrinkled clothes and red suspenders he had affected for his hitchhiking campaign last year and appeared at Oklahoma City in a well-pressed suit, with his shoes shined and his long, scraggly mustache trimmed. Close at hand as an escort...
Manhattan Island's flinty length is skewered by two sets of tubes, its flat back mounted by three great overhead structures. The tubes all duck under the East River, bore deep into Brooklyn. One is run by Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corp. The other, a two-pronged affair stretching to The Bronx, is controlled by Interborough Rapid Transit Co. which also operates the elevated lines. New York City owns the tunnels and tracks, rents them under long-term leases to the operating companies...
Besides, the recitation is too commonly a rather farcial affair, and, as a recent writer puts it, Rollins College has "wanted to get away from the method under which the class room becomes a sort of criminal court, where the teacher--as judge, prosecutor, and detective--attempts to find out, often unsuccessfully, whether or not the student has mastered his lesson, and the student is mainly interested in creating a good impression, by bluffing or otherwise." More than any other single factor, the recitation is responsible for the definition, Student: one who does not study...
...right to change his politics as often as he changes office if he wants to, but I haven't found it necessary to do that myself." Third Party? Replies by the Messrs. Wood and Lucas divesting President Hoover of any part or position in the Norris affair were obscured by the next development: talk of a Third Party. With Congress not sitting and little other news being made during the holidays, the press gave great space to an "invitation" to Senator Norris from much-respected old Philosopher John Dewey of Columbia University to form and lead a new national...
...Moon (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Enlarged and changed, this operetta of the Broadway stage of year before last has been made into a vehicle for Metropolitan-trained Grace Moore and Lawrence Tibbett each of whom has done well separately in singing pictures. It is a plotty affair in which a Russian princess and a lieutenant make love against a background of soldiers thoroughly trained in quartet and ensemble work. Undaunted by the Presence of his superior officers, Tibbett pursues Miss Moore at a ball given in her honor by her fiance, the Governor, and in consequence is sent to an outpost...