Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Even when this suit is ended, the affair of the oil scandals will not be over. There will be another suit against Harry F. Sinclair; and, after that, the final disposition of the naval oil reserves may be settled. This is only the second act. The country must not be bored yet, for the play is nowhere nearly finished. Unfortunately, the Senatorial playwrights put so much into the first act, made it so long and, in its way, so coruscating, that the rest of the drama seems in a fair way to drag...
Several Harvard prize plays of the past have met with notable success on the professional stage. Among these were "Believe Me, Xantippe," by Frederick Ballard G '12, "Common Clay," by Cleves Kincard, "Mama's Affair," by the late Rachel Barton Butler, and "You and I," by Philip Barry G '22, which ran in New York for six months...
...hall singing Viva Mussolin!" By the next morning, of course, they had cooled down and had apologized, Yet there was a final ripple to the excitement that illustrates beautifully, considered themselves insulted by the Italians accusations-all, that is, save one American judge, who took the whole affair as a joke. Whereupon the Italian, hearing of his coolness, took that coolness toward their insults as an insult to themselves! A double-hitch on the problem of "honor" that goes far to explain, and laguh away, a great many of the dangerous "dissensions" that marred the Games! Far from being "mischieyous...
Before an audience which crowded the New Lecture Hall to capacity last night, Dr. N. F. Hall G. '15, Professor Zechariah Chafee Jr. L. '13, and Professor M. O. Hudson L. '10, gave a symposium on "The Next War." The affair was given under the auspices of the Harvard chapter of Gamma Alpha, the national scientific society...
...suspicion will not down that President Coolidge and not Senator Butler has experienced the greater stroke of fortune in the affair. When Senator Butler was substituted for Senator Lodge, the sharpest thorn in the side of the Administration was replaced by a kindred spirit. Mr. Butler will be Coolidge in the Senate, and Mr. Butler's views will be accepted as those of the President. Senator Butler is inherently not a negative figure, and his added position of spokesman for the Administration should make him a power in the Senate and a power for the support of the President...