Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mary Boyd (Ann Davis) the "thirtyish" but personable wife of George Boyd (Allan Dinehart) is apprised, by her meddling mother (Elizabeth Patterson), of Boyd's unfaithfulness. To Rochester he has gone on a business trip, accompanied by Christine Kennedy (Helen Flint); openly he has carried on the affair with Christine. But Mary stills her mother's blabbing by telling her that the affair is no news to her; she has known it for months. Boyd and his mistress come to Mary to ask her for a divorce but she contemptuously refuses to give up Boyd and wreck a home...
...Imperial Ballroom of the Copley-Plaza, is especially for members of the Harvard Military and Naval Science departments, but members of the corresponding departments at Yale are also expected, as well as guests of national prominence. One of the chief reasons for changing the date of the affair was for the greater convenience of the Yale men, who could not easily make the trip on a Wednesday night...
...complicated affair about eight feet long and four high that will perform some twelve operations at once, counting land filing the cards that are fed to it according to a series of punches...
...learned scholar who contributed to your columns yesterday has given us a working foundation for solving the weighty issue of the Junior Prom. He decided that the constituency of the 1929 affair was representative of the class as a whole, but that at the same time the grand total of those whom he would like to consider representative was negligible. Now although such a conclusion may sound facetious, there is a chance that it may be mathematically possible. To get at the truth, why not conduct a scientific experiment as follows...
...cost and attendance of a Junior Dance. Three thousand dollars is practically the minimum figure. This means that to meet the expense three hundred couples at $8 a couple and 150 stags at $5 a stag must attend. Last year's dance, with probably more publicity than any previous affair, drew only two hundred and fifty couples and a hundred stags. Consequently the Committee lost money, even after a last minute attempt to reduce the expense to meet the occasion. First socially and second financially, the dance has suffered a decline...