Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...away from Cambridge, and the Yale and Dartmouth concerts at home, many trips will be made to various nearby towns, such as Worcester, Lowell, Lawrence, New Bedford, Providence, Portland and Belmont. A dance follows each entertainment, and in cases where the distance warrants it, the trips compose an overnight affair. At least one long vacation trip will be arranged similar to that last year which included New York, Washington, and Hot Springs...
Naturally this frank discussion of who's who and what's what at Harvard is primarily an affair of that institution, but the University is to be congratulated on having among its undergraduates those who are disposed to make clear charts for the seeker after knowledge...
...phase of the affair that I resent is my brother's inflammatory language directed toward our Secretary of State. I don't mind how he expresses himself, so long as he does it with the tact obligatory on a member of Parliament...
...Jones was but 14 when he led a field of the country's ablest for half a qualifying round at the Merion Cricket Club (Philadelphia). The beating he gave Gardner at Oakmont three years later was payment for a budnipping that occurred in the third round of that Merion affair. Francis Ouimet administered the budnipping at the Engineers' Club (Roslyn, L. I.) in 1920, Willie Hunter at St. Louis in 1921, Jess Sweetser at Brookline, Mass., in 1922 (harshest ever, 8 and 7), and Max Marston at Flossmoor (Chicago) in 1923. So far as his match play went, it appeared...
...along the way applauded, but there was neither cheering nor jeering. The parade marched and was reviewed with complete good humor, if not unconcern. It was not the great parade planned two months ago-a national demonstration of 150,000 or 200,000 men. Nor was it the local affair which was announced a day or two before-a parade of the Washington and Maryland Klans...