Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Administration's Federal relief system is an instance of a two-sided affair. From one side it is excellent; the government is handing out charity to the helpless victims of an economic crisis; in fact one must say that it is hardly charity, but duty that causes the government to do this. But with national elections at hand the whole thing seems to resemble a great nation-wide system of bribery--it is legal, of course; but none the less the arrangement has the ear-marks of bribery--on the part of the Democratic Party to catch the votes...
...tendered him five $100 bills for a new car, then fled in the old car when he began inspecting the notes. And all the time "Pretty Boy" Floyd was working steadily southward to his favorite haven -the Cookson Hills. Tulsa, Okla., added a final flourish to the affair by lodging against Floyd one more charge: parking overtime three years ago in the business section...
...Douglas Southall Freeman-Scribner ($7.50). Strange, even shocking as it may seem, no definitive life of the late great Robert Edward Lee has yet been written. When, 19 years ago, Publisher Scribner asked Author Freeman to write a biography of Lee, he expected it to be a one-volume affair, soon discovered to his surprise that "much the larger part of the source material had never been consulted." The job grew under his hand, when finished will fill four fat volumes. But Biographer Freeman turned up no startling new facts. "There were no 'secrets' and no scandals...
...ever set loose by a capricious and allegedly all-wise Creator. . . . And he is being paid-not much, but something-for attending this place which is part seminary, part abattoir. . . . Every office needs at least one man who, though a competent workman, understands that existence is primarily a droll affair, with the horselaugh predominant not only to the grave, but after the will is read. For purposes of keeping up morale and teaching the cardinal truths of life, any large paper could afford to hire, at princely salary, such a man as Gene Fowler . . . or Joel Sayre, a wandering behemoth...
...first two volumes (Men of Good Will, Passion's Pilgrims) will have little difficulty in picking up the threads of the story, will be relieved to see that the parallel narratives have now begun to intertwine, making fewer different threads to follow. Mme. de Champcenais' timid affair with Sammécaud gets warmer. Haverkamp, the ambitious businessman with no resources but his brains, puts through his first big deal. Young Student Jerphanion, horrified by the Paris slums, decides to join the socialists. Murderer Quinette, still undiscovered, finds out from a detective why his crime was never reported...