Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Company feels that the above facts were not clearly set forth in the article in TIME and that accordingly, there may have been some implication that McKesson & Robbins, Inc. was dishonorably involved in the affair. The management of the Company has not tolerated in the past evasiveness in regard to laws affecting the Company. It will not tolerate such evasiveness in the future...
...took the prize for vulgarity, elbowing guards in the stomach, whistling hoydenishly, spitting out fruit skins, wriggling her hips. Most effective scene was when she read death in the cards, gave the toujours la mart all its tragic implications. Most debatable costume was a slinky black velvet affair with a top like a bullfighter's jacket. This she chose for the final act as a symbol of her submission to Escamillo, the toreador...
While Titus' infatuation with Berenice, the Jewish princess, lasted, Josephus and his fellows made hay. But the affair came to an end, and to win back his waning popularity, Titus gave freer rein to the antiSemites. Josephus' wife and son left him; his other son (by an earlier marriage) died, partly through his neglect. He went back to Judea, visited the desolate site of what had once been Jerusalem, saw how vexed the land was by its Roman conquerors, by a dangerous new sect called Minaeans or Christians, by the iron orthodoxy of the Jewish doctors...
First notice of this affair occurred when Producer Jed Harris abruptly terminated the run of Coquette, announced that his star was going to have a baby. Several weeks later through Actors' Equity the cast filed $3,050 in claims against Mr. Harris for two weeks' pay in lieu of notice that the show was closing. Mr. Harris took refuge behind the "Act of God" clause in his contracts and the matter was finally adjudicated by a board of arbitration which decided against the producer...
Once in Congress. Caridius has little to do but carry on his clandestine affair with his lovely secretary and let his new friends advance his career to suit themselves. Typical among his Congressional causes is backing a bill (sponsored by a socially ambitious Western lady) to carve the Rocky Mountains into statues. All goes swimmingly until his two principal backers, Racketeer Joe Canarelli and Banker Littenham, fall out. Caridius' naïve distress is as usual allayed by Myerberg's realistic explanation: "That's the trouble with Joe, he expects from other men the same absolute unequivocal...