Word: affairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Taylor's daughters," countered Coroner Ricketts, "are prepared to testify that their mother told them the General had threatened her several times when she tried to break off their affair. The Taylor daughters will say that the General told their mother, 'If you don't marry me, you won't marry anyone...
...case of the Rockefeller affair," he shouted, ''Mr. Rockefeller asked me to change the paintings. I refused. He paid me and destroyed the paintings as was his legal right. This is worse because the changes were made surreptitiously over my signature. Falsification of work which I have signed is like forging a check...
...GLORY Is DEPARTED-Alexander Lernet-Holenia-Harper ($2.50). Between drinks a jittery Austrian ex-cavalry officer relates his adventures in the Balkans during the last weeks of the World War, including a love affair with the beautiful protégée of an archduchess, a mutiny drowned in blood, a narrow escape from his own and British troops...
...financing of this enterprise was a three-cornered affair. The State Legislature authorized the City of New York to issue $7,000,000 worth of stock for acquisition of needed land, which will be developed by the Park Department after the Fair. From the State the Fair promoters are asking in all more than $4,000,000. Last spring when the bills for the first appropriation of $2,130,000 seemed to be lagging at Albany, Mr. McAneny resigned as president of the World's Fair Corporation, was succeeded by orchidaceous but politically shrewd Grover Whalen. Mr. Whalen went...
Mabel Dodge's recoil from her strenuous experiences in the upper world and underworld of the Left drove her back to the circles of more conventional artists. She embarked on a tormented love affair with Artist Maurice Sterne, eventually married him. Despondent, impatient, she took to psychoanalysis, which she enjoyed as "a kind of tattletaling." Then she frequented Christian Scientists, mediums, mystics, quacks, Buddhists and other heathen healers, as her third husband drifted away. Reed died in Moscow, Haywood stayed in Leavenworth penitentiary, Lippmann edited The New Republic, and her friends of the dead Bohemian days went their painful...