Word: affairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...famous syncopator's story, written with literary assistance, is autobiographical in form, although all characters are fictitious. The first chapter opens at a "Swank Harvard affair" when an undergraduate approaches Mr. Dorsey and asks to be allowed to play a number...
...right: when the market crashed last August he made a speech blaming it on SEC regulation. Paul Shields then took it upon himself to go see SEC Chairman William O. Douglas. Thenceforth, while Douglas attacked from Washington, Paul Shields and John Hanes worked from within. The Richard Whitney affair was the Trojan horse which delivered the Exchange into their hands. John Hanes then went blithely to Washington as a SECommissioner. Broker Shields had a finger in choosing the 27 new governors provided by the new Exchange constitution voted two months...
...fairly well-equipped and conscientious native maestro. Boards of directors of U. S. symphony orchestras, sometimes influenced by socialite patronesses, usually demand colorful or famous personalities. Current in orchestral circles is the remark of a well-known pianist's wife:* "When a conductor in Europe has a love affair, the result usually is a child; in America an entire orchestra...
Compared to the much-postponed Paris Exposition of last year, the Glasgow fair set a record by being 98% ready on opening day. By week's end well over half a million visitors had entered the gates of the 175-acre park. Entirely a "family affair" designed to further British Empire trade relations, the exhibition is made up of pavilions representing the Home Country, the Dominions, various Crown colonies and two special halls showing off Scotland to the empire...
...virgin girls, less than one-half admitted having more than one affair, only 4% admitted being completely promiscuous...