Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...highest court of France has acquitted Mr. Samuel Schwartzbard from any guilt in the Petlura affair, yet you, in your supposedly unbiased presentation of news, in TIME, Nov. 7, have called this man "murderer" and "culprit...
...courageous action saved the lives of many more than 50,000 Jews ? If Schwartzbard was what you so prominently titled him, then all those who risk their lives for a lofty principle in a war, they also would be murderers. The incidents of this affair were also a war by the butcher Petlura and his blood-thirsty gangs against an innocent and defenseless people. Any person who would get rid of such an inhuman, barbarous individual is a hero...
...applied to the charges male," was Strawn's summary of the Chicago mayor's campaign: "That the present agitation is a publicity move is proved by the fact that many of the books which have been destroyed were placed in the schools during Mayor Thompson's administration. The whole affair is apparently an effort to attract attention...
...plot of "The Constant Wife" is easy of comprehension. Miss Barrymore has the part of Constance Middleton, wife of a Harley Street Surgeon, John Middleton. John is having an affair with Marie Louise, a great friend of Constance's. Constance knows of the liaison but has decided to ignore it as long as she can. The situation comes to a head, however, when Mortimer, husband of Marie Louise, bursts in, and accuses John and Marie Louise before Constance. The latter, clever lady, concocts a magnificent alibi for her husband and his mistress, and Mortimer goes away, abject...
This game, which has had several counterparts in past winters and is to be continued as an annual affair, is to begin at 8 o'clock and will be open to the public who may ask questions which will be answered by demonstrations from the players...