Word: affairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chief student solicitor explained last night that the "head man" wanted to step out of the racket in the middle of last week, and that the panic occurred because his inexperienced assistant was handling the affair. The operators have had to sell their cars and mortgage their homes to make up for the $36,000 loss...
Writing in the Harvard Educational Review's current issue, Dean Henry W. Holmes '08, of the Graduate School of Education, declares that "intolerance, contumely, and disdain expressed against any group, class, race, or creed . . ." as personified by the recent Freshmen vs. American Legion affair, is " . . . an offense against the democratic spirit...
Steffens slurred over in his autobiography his lifelong fears that he was drying up as a writer, that his talents were failing just when he had most to say. He also left out the biggest emotional complication of his life: his love affair with a married woman (called G. in his letters), who could not divorce her invalid husband...
...sister, who protested against this affair, he wrote the most impassioned letters in the book, demanding that she receive his mistress and condemning artificial moral standards: "Do you think I have been insincere in what I have written all my life? Do you think that my contempt for law, society and conformity are not genuine? Well, I can tell you I am no faker. I shall always try to appear to conform, but I shall not do so to,-well, to avoid the disapproval of others...
Although the second half of the novel pictures big-time corruption in Paris, complete with blackmailers, international financiers and gamblers, it is less convincing than the early chapters laid in a little town near Marseille. There the mayor's 16-year-old son is having an affair with the wife of the tax collector, as is the local doctor; the dealer in funeral wreaths is embracing his wife's maid, who is also having an affair with the son of a schoolteacher, who, in turn, is mixed up with the nymphomaniac daughter of the owner of the local...