Word: affairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...justification offered for these practices is the 20th-century concept of war as a totalitarian affair. Under this theory a whole nation is mobilized. A factory worker, a government clerk, a physician becomes just as important a cog in the modern war machine as the soldier at the front. All are legitimate "military objectives...
Stiff resistance, followed by orderly retreat, made the slow, steady Rightist drive a costly affair in men and munitions. Thousands more Moors and Riffs landed at Algeciras from Spanish Morocco. In Italy, no secret was made of heavy replacements of airplanes and pilots for the Rightist air force and it was freely predicted that Dictator Benito Mussolini might have to dispatch more "volunteers'' to Spain before the Rightists could win the war. At Burgos, Generalissimo Franco was reported to have ordered more air raids on merchant shipping at Leftist ports...
...known band will play in Lowell House, where the dance aspect of the Spread is to be held, from 10 until 3 o'clock. The buffet supper will be given in Winthrop House between 11:30 and 1 o'clock, it was also announced. Tickets for the entire gala affair can be purchased either at the H. A. A. or at the door on Monday. The prices are: $5.50 per couple. $3.50 per stage...
...Francisco mural at Fleishhacker Zoo was a big, bright-colored affair done in egg tempera,*portraying the story of Noah and the Ark. The work of Dorothy Puccinelli and Helen Forbes, it showed pretty animals embarking and debarking, a highly stylized Noah. But if the mural was restrained, its dedication was not: school children dressed as animals re-enacted the story of the flood, 2,000 pigeons were released during the ceremony...
...Most spectacular of the bunch, a near-genius creation of canniness, stupidity, bombast and lust, is the half-articulate Rumanian Jew, Grain-broker Henri Leon, whose "deposit technique" marks the perfect blend of speculation and double-crossing. When Leon has a love affair with a smart Hollywood adventuress, he incorporates the partnership as the Margaret Trust, of which he holds 49% of the shares...