Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best they could to make EPIC palatable to the rank-&-file of the party, Messrs. Creel & McAdoo ducked out of Sinclair's victory banquet. Mr. Creel headed for Washington, Mr. McAdoo for Mexico. Neither has gone back since. The Democratic State Chairman washed his hands of the whole affair...
...characters in this story are two--a Freshman Proctor and a lady guest. Having invited the young lady to the graduate dance at Radcliffe and finding the affair extremely boring he very gallantly suggested they depart to more pleasanter surroundings--his room in the Yard. Returning rather late that evening the young lady when questioned by her friends explained where she had been. Asked what had kept her so late, she replied, "the Freshmen were having a fire drill and I was left for a long time alone in the room." And do the Freshmen have fire drills...
...over the Premiership during the bloody riots which followed the Stavisky disclosures (TIME. Feb. 19). At stake were local provincial offices everywhere except in Paris. Month or so ago any political prophet would have said that the public's never-ceasing indignation at the corruption revealed by the "Stavisky affair" would be the major issue in any French election. But fortnight ago Papa Doumergue, in a drive to push through his proposed reforms of the French Constitution (TIME, Oct. 8), broadcast a new issue to the Republic's voters by bitterly attacking the Communist-Socialist United Front which has steadfastly...
...European students, we are surprised to perceive the attitude with which the recent assassinations in Marseilles are being received by the American press. It appears that the main object of interest with regard to this terrible affair is the story of the Boy-King Peter and how he received the news of his father's death, or how the Queen wept over her husband's corpse. It is strange also that, in a country so democratically minded, interest should be concentrated on glorifying the career of a somewhat doubtful Balkan Monarch to the exclusion of any concern at the calamity...
...student of mathematics he made such a reputation that the Sultan made him his astronomer. In his crude observatory Omar revamped the calendar, indulged in heretical speculations about the nature of the universe, tossed off unconsidered little rubai (quatrains) when he felt off his feed. A tragic love affair turned him from an ambitious scientist into a world-weary philosopher. Riches and power were heaped on him by the Sultan, who took his soothsaying advice as gospel, but Omar was not much upset when his royal patron died and took his favor with him. Immediately excommunicated for heresy...