Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sacco-Vanzetti case became even more an international affair with a rumor last week that a committee of noted Frenchmen was coming to the U. S. to aid the condemned men. On this committee were reported to be Georges Lecomte, of the French Academy, Louis Loucheur, the Countess de Noailles, onetime Minister of the Interior, Louis Malvy, Professor Paul Langevin and Lieutenant Colonel Alfred Dreyfus (retired...
...Stillman and his gypsyesque wife are dignified friends though they live apart mostly. But they will be seen together at the wedding of their son and Lena Wilson. Having decided it is a possible thing, they will put the wedding through in the best of style, a thoroughbred affair. Will newspaper editors send representatives to cover such an affair? Certainly yes; as surely as a hungry trout will rise to a bright...
Your doing so brought about a lengthy and weighty correspondence. Recently in a small circle of friends I referred to TIME and this related affair; and the consensus of opinion was that yours is an atheistic medium, pure and simple, sponsored by and for the purpose of promoting Atheism, hence your placing me - and others no doubt - in direct communication with these professed and confessed, so-called "Truth Seekers," thereby causing them to release a batch of atheistic literature. My friends agree that it is one method of distribution. I warmly defended TIME...
...favorite lady-in-waiting to the late Queen Elizabeth of Rumania, better known by her pen name, "Carmen Silva." Queen Elizabeth, sympathizing with the lovers, permitted them to be constantly together. When news of this came to strict, arbitrary King Carol of Rumania, he broke off the affair by the ruthless step of banishing Mile. Vacarescu from Rumania, and later sending Queen Elizabeth into enforced residence in Germany. Last week Helene Vacarescu, overcome by grief at the death of Ferdinand I, left Paris to spend a period of mourning at Vichy, smart...
Right or Wrong? The Ocotal affair revived last week with greatest virulence the question whether the Administration of U. S. President Coolidge has been right or wrong in its recent dealings with Nicaragua (TIME...