Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...luncheon in question was a somewhat unique affair. The invitation list included, not the usual long-haired admirers of communism but some of the most eminent, not to say hardboiled, bankers of Wall Street. The luncheon was held in the spacious Bankers' Club behind closed doors...
...from Princeton. He spent a year in graduate study, a few months preparing for the ministry, and then changed to the study of law at Litchfield. He was an attractive youth, especially to the ladies, although he was only five feet six. He admitted to "now and then an affair of petty gallantry...
...England. Modernists how fight their battles across the front pages of London newspapers--the same newspapers which insistently called for more copy on the Scopes trial because it was so "quaintly ludicrous". An English bishop in a speech reported by the Associated Press, expressed his opinion during the Scopes affair, that America is "fifty to seventy-five years behind us in cultural development...
...present form "The Man on the Box" is too long: It could have been about two reels shorter without anybody going home in disappointment. Then there is the helicopter invention which seeks to restrain the comedy from becoming entirely a slap-stick affair and succeeds only in worrying the audience all the way through...
...similar trial was conducted several years ago by Professor J. Mac A. Maguire, as a part of his Evidence course. However, the present affair is being sponsored by the students...