Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reward to the faithful, and a proof that Symphony concerts are not in vain. Certainly the subscribers to the series never foresaw when they trod their ways to those simple, unassuming Thursday evenings, that ultimately fame would come--fame and Mr. Chaplin. But the scandal sheets have headlined the affair, not as praising the advent of culture and Rimsky-Korsokof in Cambridge, but as announcing the presence of a much married man. This is as it should be: the tabloid has its story: Mrs. Chaplin sees Memorial Hall when it is most imposing--in the dead of night...
Judging from previous records this match promises to be a nip and tuck affair. The English racquet men are all adept players and in their clash with the University team in the Nationals they staged a hard fight which nearly netted them a victory and very probably would have in case of victory at that time taken the title out of this country for the first time. After the first four matches the teams stood 2 to 2. Jackson, by winning his match, saved the day for the University team...
...skaters will place them in a position to claim the championship crown if they conquer Yale on Saturday night. Of the Eastern college sextets, Harvard and Dartmouth have the best early season records, and a late-season clash between the two teams assumes all the color of a titular affair...
...meeting: "If a fellow should buy a book in a course which he is not taking and should go back to his fraternity room, read it and think about it, he would be judged a queer fellow. And probably he would be. Scholarship today seems to be an affair for the shut-ins and queer fellows." He described the fraternity type of student: "Facile in the classroom and ready with answers in emergencies . . . superficial . . . the fellow who comes to class with a hangover and gets by, nevertheless. . . . Fraternity men, with their social advantages and intellectual capability, should form the nucleus...
French critics have been exclaiming and declaiming about Author La Mazière. His hero, the Parisian equivalent of a Wall Street protozoan, is made to seem more wistful than the meanest Americano would likely be. An orphan, he suffers an ugly seduction in his youth. His one love affair founders on his poverty before it is launched. His friends are a kindly, resigned fatalist, and a mad painter who drags him to hear opera from the top gallery. His sensitive nature is sickened by the War and after the misery of heroism he experiences peacetime betrayal by crass noncombatants...