Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three years past, I feel entitled to offer some criticism. Your repeated references to an unfortunate lynching which occurred here during the early hours of Oct. 8 has given this community quite as much unfavorable and unsought publicity as necessary. Why not review some past racial affair in East St. Louis, Chicago, Washington and an Ohio city? They are all closer to your office than Aiken. That we are civilized is best attested by the considerable number of America's best families who for more than 50 years have been spending their winter vacation in Aiken, stepping from the train...
...walls of its abandoned distilleries. . . ." Enraged, fuming, two-fisted Governor W. J. Fields telegraphed the St. Louis paper: "Your vicious and unwarranted editorial attack upon Kentucky . . . indicates that you are either a liar or a fool, and I am inclined to believe that you are both." Paralyzed, the affair died...
...business men with derby hats and cigars; the gold lace and glory is never in the public eye. The little countries must supply that for us--the ones whose names end in aria and aria, where government is a piratical adventure and not a staid, if piratical, affair of business. A Balkan Queen, making a grad progress through the States, probably attracted more notice than would the Queen of England, had she been the guest...
...Yale game will be the sole $5 affair on Harvard's 1927 list. The Dartmouth and Pennsylvania games will cost $4 a seat next fall, while the Purdue, Holy Cross, Indiana and Brown contests will be $2 games to all except season-ticket holders...
...statement given out at the Lampoon building yesterday, President J. O. Whedon '27, declared: "There is absolutely no truth in the story which appeared in the CRIMSON this morning. It is true that a party was held, but it was a quiet affair with no morons present. The Lampoon resents the implied slur on the reputation of the innocent turkey, who did no more than to lose her head. Incidently, a good time...