Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Through the first three-quarters of the game the Crimson had played the Blue to a standstill in a fast and free-kicking affair. But in the final the Elis exerted their vaunted passing superiority to the utmost and inevitably scored the winning goal over a badly-tired Crimson eleven...
...with Doubleday, that two strangers had made an arbitrary agreement which the State law said Macy's must observe. For Doubleday, small, swart, smart Lawyer Ernst admitted various U. S. Supreme Court decisions against price maintenance, but pointed out that the Double-day-Macy argument was an intrastate affair. He said that New York courts could overrule the New York Legislature only when the legislative act could be shown to be arbitrary and unreasonable. But there was nothing unreasonable about admitting that the maker of a trademarked article continued to have an interest in his product until...
...publisher. Driven to distraction by her, Byron found companionship with her mother-in-law, Lady Melbourne, brilliant, cynical woman of 62, who gave him detailed advice on how to pursue charmers, was not shocked until he confessed his incestuous love for his sister. Byron also had a happier love affair with Lady Oxford, who was almost twice...
...whose nose had been blown away, breathing through two red rubber tubes that gave him the appearance of an insect; a description of a nurse who, in a world of dying men, began to complain of an earache. The Diary of Our Own Samuel Pepys is a two-volume affair running to 1,271 pages, covering the period from June 7, 1911 to Dec. 31, 1934. Since it was written by Franklin Pierce Adams for his Always in Good Humor and Conning Tower columns in the New York Evening Mail, World and Herald Tribune, it contains only such incidents...
...dances are planned within the next month by the Business School Association. The first is on Saturday evening, at the Student's Club, and is informal. Music for the affair, which will be limited to about seventy-five couples, will be furnished by Ken Reeves' orchestra...