Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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White Flannels (Louise Dresser). Mother Politz insists that her boy Frank keep his pants clean and go to college. She insists that he drop his puppy love affair with his coal-mining-town sweetheart; that he be a football hero; that he evade the college vampire. When he seems to fail in her ambitions, Louise Dresser screws up her face marvelously and weeps colloquially. When he comes from a coal mine rescue in his white flannels and fondles his original sweetheart, his mother beams. Production is an evangelical hymn played on a portable melodeon-staccato...
This year for the first time, favors will be given, to the guests of the Class of 1927 at this annual function, which in spite of its name is in reality the Senior Prom. As in past years the affair will be a program dance...
...across the Atlantic they seem to understand our policy very well, and to find it remarkably consistent. "The London Times" finds in the Nicaraguan affair nothing to get much excited about. The United States is merely containing a program of unofficial annexation of the countries around the Caribean, which it is has followed for twenty years past. It is in the process of establishing a mandate over Nicaragua just as England, for instance, put Egypt under the thumb of the Colonial Office (the Times did not express itself just this way). London merely regards the unfortunate verbal gymnastics...
Doris was not a bad woman at all, but her love affair with Apollos, a Jew, had a pronounced geographical tendency that kept getting her into scrapes. She even had a child by Vespasian when the future emperor was only a centurion. Her wanderings make the frame of this novel wide. Her adventures, which are as unintermittent as they are various, provide bright colors for the picture...
...graduate students of Harvard and Radcliffe are invited to attend, it was announced last night. In charge of the affair are Miss Pearl Paulson of Radcliffe...