Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will be remembered that some 15 years ago Halley's comet scorched through the sky. It had a tail a million miles long. It gave off an iridescence; and some persons grew frightened until scientists assured them that while the tail was indeed a million miles long, the whole affair did not have about it or in it an ounce of substance. [Laughter.] Likewise, the speech of the Senator from Alabama gives off an iridescence, but is bereft of even an ounce of substance...
...walking along a lane with a revolver in his pocket. Just why he was carrying a revolver no one, afterward, could tell, or why, meeting an old woman and her daughter in the lane, he began to quarrel with them. Mr. Johnson, some said, had had a love affair with the daughter. He ended the conversation by shooting each woman in the mouth. They fell dead. He ran to his home, barricaded door and window. He had another revolver in the house and 150 rounds of ammunition. A crowd of students from Carson-Newman College gathered outside. Murderer Johnson fired...
...Topiarian Trophy Competition is an annual affair conducted in the School of Landscape Architecture. A silver cup is awarded to that student who adapts an assigned problem in landscape architecture to an assigned topography most successfully. This year the competition closed on January 6 with 31 drawings submitted by students in the School of Landscape Architecture...
Tomorrow's contest is the first exhibition debate ever attempted at any prepatory school. The affair has been arranged by several Exeter masters, who desire to stimulate an interest in oratory among the students of the academy...
...pupils saw the piece about the "Street War" [TIME, Nov. 8] and were disgusted. Such words as "tribe" for companions, "Negresses" for colored girls, "Pickaninnies" for children, did not "take" well. A common reference to the affair with correct names would be better. They like to read of colored people when anything of note is given...