Word: affairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Host and honoree at this affair was a remarkable man of 81. His Thanksgiving Day visitors saw a big, ruddy gentleman who expects people to believe that he and his workers really love each other. George F. went to work in a shoe shop when he was 13, borrowed $150,000 when he was 25 to buy into the embryo of his present business. He still talks of himself as a worker. Every morning when he is at home (he winters in Florida) he crams a golf cap on his balding grey head, drives himself to an E. J. factory...
Those were romantic years. In Philadelphia a girl said: "Every girl should have one Clifford Odets in her life." In Springfield, Mass., there was a "horrible, exquisite" love affair "with something of the Sorrows of Werther about it." In Manhattan there was an unheated railroad flat near Tenth Avenue which Odets shared with eight other people. (The last time this flat was mentioned in print, the landlord wrote to Odets: "You still owe us money.'') Coal for the stove being expensive, the roomers sat around wrapped in blankets. Odets mastered the art of making potato pancakes...
Freshman Frolic plans were brought to completion yesterday with the announcement of patronesses and ushers for the affair which the Yardlings will held in the Union Saturday night at 8:30 o'clock...
...local concert will be the occasion for the annual reunion of the Club graduates, who have been urged to bring guests as the affair will be followed by a dance. Flowers of Boston society are expected to attend and a debutante committee has been appointed. A dance will also follow the concert at Worcester...
...want to involve any of the other members. We believe that the movies are fine amusement, without that possibility of feminine involvement which has such a detrimental effect on college men, who go from one affair to another. We're not interested in the equal-rights-for-women question. And furthermore, I haven't any ideas on two-piece bathing suits." After denying that he had ever seen Deanna Durbin, Hearn hung...