Word: affairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that Lee Dixon, premier lover of the U. S. fleet, could garner a garter from Miss Martin, premiere iceberg of the Republic of Panama. In the meantime, Miss Martin has fallen for her hero, and he for her, but when she learns of the wager, she calls the affair off until the final curtain...
...Lenin first, and Stalin afterward set eyes on him, it was simply because they judged him an exceptional gangster. For us, Voroshilov and his equals, like all carrion of Bolshevik Russia, do not interest us a bit. If among themselves they exalt or destroy one another, that is their affair. At worst there will be one less criminal going around the world...
...they want to fight each other, well, it's none of our affair...
Prominent undergraduates formed a "Student Committee to Save Harvard Education," got an approving send-off from the Crimson. Meanwhile Harvard's entire faculty began to hold extraordinary sessions behind closed doors to debate the affair. Conservative Harvard sentiment was summed up by Mathematics Professor Marshall Harvey Stone, son of U. S. Supreme Court Justice Harlan Fiske Stone: "I believe the situation now existing is unhealthy to the point of gravity...
Immediate result of all these new ship orders was a rush to put inefficient plants back to work-plants not used since World War I. Thus, American Ship and Commerce, an unappetizing Harriman affair, owes the U. S. Government $1,097,413.22 from World War I, and owes Philadelphia $1,229,608 in back taxes. It offered to settle for $100,000 apiece, got Attorney General Frank Murphy to agree provided it can become a going concern again, started reorganizing to open its moldy Cramp's yard in Philadelphia. On the west coast, where last spring...