Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge-Davis-LaFollette (15 to 8 to 5) but the electoral margin was such as to suggest that unless issues develop to split the Republican Party within itself during the next four years, the re-election of 1932 might as well be a perfunctory one-party affair, to save public bother and private expense. With a Republican Congress, an efficient nationwide party organization, good times and peaceful problems to start his record on, Herbert Hoover appeared to have the U. S. more completely in the hollow of his hand than any President since Roosevelt...
...idealistic latter-day maiden striving to assure marital congeniality by pre-nuptial experiment. In the first few lines, she and her fiancé express satisfaction with last night's trial. To make it doubly sure, they exchange partners with their unconsulted host and hostess. Miss Gish completes an affair with host, but fiancé quails before hostess. Then follow two acts of confessions, recriminations, door-slammings, to end with four-way felicity the way it should be (according to the movies). Despite such items as "I love him!" "Then that's a very good reason not to marry...
...Himalayan Blunder." Since the whole ill-starred affair seems to have sprung from the blundering brain of Sir Austen Chamberlain, the duty of flaying him may properly be left to the press of his own country. Last week the Daily Express, an independent paper with strong leanings toward Sir Austen's own party (Conservative) said: "There is hardly a line in this long series of telegrams and despatches that does not betray a naive misunderstanding of all outside opinion and psychology such as Germany herself hardly surpassed in the days...
...Villains." The U. S. public speculated as to the relative "villainy" of the principals in the Salt Creek affair. To Oilman Sinclair's record, another black mark was added. It hardly showed against the background. Similarly with Albert Bacon Fall...
With President Hibben's approval, the undergraduates instituted a boycott of Princeton's shopkeepers, whose chief subsistence is the undergraduate trade. "No Vote-No Trade," "Recrimination for Discrimination," cried campus signs. This phase of the affair was reminiscent of the origin of it all. Last year the Princeton undergraduates were not allowed to vote in a mayoral primary election. Reason alleged: one of the candidates was Benjamin Franklin ("Bacon") Bunn, keeper of the co-operative store on the University campus. Another candidate, a onetime faculty member named Van Nest, believed that the students would pour out to vote...