Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...affair might have passed off quietly had not the New York Herald Tribune quoted Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Lowman as follows: "The American (tariff) policy is one of reciprocity. That's our policy: they go up, we go up. They go down, we go down...
...gentlemen concerned, and may or may not give pleasure to the thousands who come to spend an autumn Sunday afternoon watching them play Just what excitement the average spectator could get out of such a pointless game is difficult to conceive. Neither college is interested in the affair, neither undergraduate body sees it in the light of an inter-collegiate contest. It is a private matter concerning only the possible players and promoters...
...District to crawl to the very steps of the State Capital." His charges were almost wholly unfounded, but that is to be expected in any political utterance of the kind. Its relative lack of truth was not what caused Republican leaders hastily to wipe their hands of the whole affair...
Whoever writes your China articles cannot have followed the Nanking affair with the slightest appreciation of what it was about. There was no firing in reprisal upon Nanking nor has there been by U. S. war vessels upon any Chinese port during the whole period of the present confused conditions along the Yangtze Valley. The firing at Nanking on March 24 by U. S. and British men-of-war consisted solely of a barrage laid about a house on a hill overlooking the city wall and in plain view from the river. In this house were the American Consul...
...taste not merely as "suitable" but with the more glowing adjectives "smart," "gay," "distinguished." ¶ President and Mrs. Coolidge, the latter in emerald green chiffon and a white satin wrap with white furry collar, helped make the opening of the new Fox Cinema Theatre, largest in town, a gala affair by attending. Legislators and diplomats aplenty were in the house, but what most pleased President William Fox of the Fox Film Corporation and impressario Samuel Lionel Rothafel was the President's demonstrative enjoyment of third program, especially a revival of the Glow Worm number from Composer Paul Lincke...