Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...novel the reader expects Bernard to do something. To the very end there is a feeling that it is a long prologue on a fully set stage. The characters are introduced, the minor ones involve themselves in minor episodes, but nothing much ever happens to the hero. One love-affair fizzles out, another is aborted, but these are merely by the way. When at last the formidable grandfather dies, Bernard has been in the rut too long and has forgotten his dreams. The cloth-mills are the inevitable, the Fates, to Bernard Quesnay. Their prosperity, strikes, slumps, trade-wars, absorb...
...aura of most ordinary simplicity-something to be patronizingly smiled upon by those whose assumption of superiority varies directly as their utter ignorance of what the game really is. To most persons, not particularly those in custodial care, the game of checkers is a more or less dull affair, in which one should: 1) try to take two for one or three for two; 2) try to cement the opposing forces in such manner that one's opponent is physically unable to make a move (calomel and dynamite to the contrary, not withstanding), etc., etc. ad nauseam. Some...
Sergeant Michael Muldoon of the Brighton Police Force divulged to a CRIMSON reporter several suggestions, which, in his opinion would help to make the CRIMSON-Princetonian baseball game Saturday a gala affair. After three minutes of rumination, following the reporter's question he spoke...
Lovers (Ramon Novarro, Alice Terry). Spanish diplomat Don Julian (Edward Martindel) lives in domestic placidity with his young wife, Teodora (Alice Terry), and his ward, Ernesto (Ramon Novarro). Busy-buzzing gossips circulate malicious lies about an affair between the young wife and the young ward. Duels result. Don Julian is run through. Ernesto avenges his death, sails far away with the maligned Teodora, to lands less suspicious. It is all simple, well-acted, not particularly engrossing...
This meet, which is an annual affair always held at Franklin Field, draws teams from the best colleges in the country. The first of the college relay races will be held late Friday afternoon, but the major part of the competition is scheduled for Saturday...