Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contemporary scene a revival from its best days, its long-ago, pre-war (Civil War) days. Virginia revived its oldtime Governor's Ball in the Grays' Armory at Richmond. Everything was done, including smilax, minuets and no admission for whippersnappers until after the grand march, to make the affair savor of a vanishing grand manner...
...This spirit was visible at the Governor's Ball, not only in the presence of all the F. F. V.'s, Woodrow Wilson's widow and President Alderman of the University of Virginia, but also in the presence of all Virginia's onetime Governors who are yet alive. The affair, most brilliant of Virginia's social year, was given under the auspices of the Virginia League of Women Voters. In what State besides Virginia is the League of Women Voters really synonymous with Society...
...optimism which has always characterized the friendly Harold McCormick, was of course unjustified. Ganna Walska achieved, not merely the notoriety which generally attaches to her doings; before she had put foot on the U. S., she became a cause célèbre, a wronged woman, an international affair. In short, she surpassed herself and Harold McCormick's worst presentiments. Ganna Walska arrived with 15 trunks, containing, she said, $2,500,000 worth of personal effects; and when customs officials demanded that she pay duty of approximately $1,000,000 upon these, Ganna Walska refused...
...Royal Oak affair (TIME, March 26 to April 16) climaxed in the demotion of her Captain, Kenneth G. B. Dewar, and her Commander Henry M. Daniel, because they had rebuked their superior Admiral, contrary to the rules of discipline, for using "vile and insulting language." Commander Daniel capitalized his notoriety by becoming a highly paid feature writer for the London Daily Mail. Captain Dewar, no capitalizer, suffered his demotion silently until last week, when he was promoted to be captain of the battle cruiser Tiger, Public sympathy and the potency of the press are responsible for Captain Dewar...
...American Electric Railway Association has made its meeting & exposition at Cleveland a yearly affair. One attraction is that the Cleveland Railway Co. has the privilege of raising (or lowering) fares to provide ample money for dividends on its capital stock and for experiments in street railway operations. Practically every other company in the country is bound by franchise always to charge fixed fares. Cleveland thus is the inspiration and hope of such companies...