Word: affairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...then we go to bed about ten o'clock. As a matter of fact, when I came to New York to make a picture, I just couldn't get used to the late hours and that sort of thing. I was pretty much exhausted at the end of the affair. But then I really am nothing but a Middle Western boy. And when I look at my pictures, I am pretty much shocked at how terrible I am," and at this Mr. Rogers indulged in a gesture of the deepest chagrin, "You probably don't notice the faults...
...black headlines, first-page position. So breathlessly fast did events move, so blatantly sincere and joyous seemed popular response to the shootings, that all question of whether the dead men could possibly have provoked a general famine vanished from the realm of practical politics. Point of the savage affair seemed to be that it offered fresh, significant proof of Ivan Ivanovitch's present pressing concern to fill his belly. If food were even fairly easy to obtain in Russia, popular fury could not thus be roused to national frenzy merely because the No. I Soviet meat man was supposed...
...arrived at the tomb of Belgium's Unknown Soldier to lay a wreath. Pistol Man de Rosa wiggled his way through surrounding guards, fired two ineffectual shots, was immediately knocked senseless. Almost as though he had expected the shots, Prince Umberto coolly proceeded with his wreath laying. The affair looked strange to reporters when it occurred. Last week as the trial progressed, it looked stranger still...
...This affair is sponsored by the Foreign Student Committee of the Brooks House and is held every year. It is an opportunity for students from foreign countries to meet Americans, professors, and graduate and undergraduate students. It serves, also, to bring together those members of the University who are interested in international problems, and will pave the way for the supplementary meetings of the International Council, the discussion group organized by the Brooks House...
...first high table to be held in the new Houses naturally holds a great deal of interest for the outside world. After the formal opening and inspection of the two new Houses last Wednesday, this affair comes next in interest and importance. The dinner will be a most informal affair, according to Professor Coolidge, with the shortest possible time devoted to speeches...