Word: affairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While first-rate "human interest" items continue to pour from the White House, TIME will report them. Example: Sequel to the vest-stud affair is the well-authenticated report that the President's embarrassment was caused by one of his sons making off with the studs, neglecting to replace them in the Presidential bureau drawer...
...qualms every phrase of the Hirota Cabinet's first declaration of policy when it belatedly appeared last week. Its language was high-flown. "With a sense of awe and deep responsibility," preambled the Premier, "I have obeyed the Imperial command to organize a Cabinet after the recent extraordinary affair...
Feeling that the Harvard-Yale Fencing fracas of last Saturday would die a natural death, William J. Bingham '16, director of Physical Education and Athletics, last night refused to make any statement concerning the possible consequences of the affair...
General Hagood's remedy for existing ills seems very sensible and constructive, but, of course, the whole affair will only serve to tear down confidence in our Congress and our Army high command instead of serving the worthy purpose which it should have served...
Last week the business of avenging the sad affair of Tom Molineaux fell to his great-great-grandnephew, John Henry Lewis, a coffee-colored 21-year-old from Phoenix, Ariz., who is currently light-heavyweight champion of the world. Lewis' opponent in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden was the first Englishman in the past decade deemed worthy of a chance to win such an important title, a tubby-looking, determined young Lancashireman named Jock McAvoy, billed as middleweight and light-heavyweight champion of the British Empire...