Word: affairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gods (London Film) is based on the triangle of a matinee idol (Sebastian Shaw), his actress wife (Gertrude Lawrence) and a spinster secretary (Miriam Hopkins). When the secretary breaks off her affair with him because his wife is about to have a child, he resolves on that stage-worn device-actually killing his wife when as Othello he is smother ing her as Desdemona. This time, how ever, Desdemona lives to reconquer her Othello...
Aghast at the whole affair, President Anton J. Carlson of the American Association of University Professors, a University of Chicago physiologist who was on hand as A.A.U.P. s unofficial witness, exploded: "I have not hoped to live to see this kind of meeting. . . . The important thing is not Dr. Frank but the statement by Mr. Wilkie that governors always have insisted upon having a hand in the selection of presidents of State universities. ... I could imagine such a thing happening only in the early days of the Russian revolution by a committee of soldiers and peasants. It has happened here...
THIS Is MY AFFAIR-Lola Kinel-Lit-tle, Brown...
...peacetime would seem abnormal. Lola Kinel, a Polish girl whose family lived in Petrograd, had no more than her share of Wartime and post-War cyclones, but to U. S. readers the weather she lived through seems stormy indeed. A cut above the usual adventure-autobiography, This Is My Affair should appeal to those who find true stories as readable as novels and often more entertaining...
Judging from the action of the board, and, in particular, from the statements of some of its members, responsible for ousting Dr. Frank, the answer to this question is clearly in the negative. As to Governor La Follette's own part in the affair, that is another matter. His statement to the press confined itself to dealing with the duties of the Governor in connection with the university's budget, and repeated specific charges of inefficiency against Dr. Frank. But nothing in his statement or in his speech before the mob of students cleared him of the implication of countenancing...