Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...included British Ambassador Sir Eric Phipps edged into the theatre, there were wild shouts of: "We don't want Bergner! We don't want Jewish actresses-the Judah of Paris!" More eggs spattered on placards and against the lights. Finally, just when it looked as if the affair would turn into one of the worst riots of the Third Reich. Nazi Commander Ernst Roehm of the Berlin Storm Troops persuaded the mob to quiet down. Reenforcements of police blocked the street at both ends, dispersed the crowd before the audience, which waited inside ten minutes to cheer Cinemactress...
...year had new stories to tell his guests about the curious cherry-red quail on his preserve (TIME, March 13, 1933), now recognized by the Department of Agriculture as a distinct species. Ever since 1909, when Manitoba Rap began the fashion, the national champion ship has been largely an affair for pointers, though a setter, Feagin's Mohawk Pal, won three times (1927, 1928, 1930). This year it looked as if a setter might come through again. Louis M. Bobbitt, a chain drugstore man from Winston-Salem, N. C., one of the first amateur handlers in years...
William H. Schmidt, 2nd, '37, of Chestnut Hill has been appointed chairman of the Freshman Jubilee Committee, it was learned last night. A committee of 15 has been appointed, and will meet for the first time Tuesday night to discuss plans for the affair. The Jubilee, which is the principal social event of the Freshman year, will be held in the Union in the latter part of May, probably on the night of the 25th, Schmidt announced. There will be dancing from ten to three o'clock, and refreshments will be served during a midnight intermission...
...Dean's office has acted sensibly and tolerantly. For the benefit of the press it has pronounced the affair "unauthorized" and has expressed a kind of mild indignation by taking a meaningless step "to prevent its further dissemination." For the benefit of the Critic, it has ordered, semi-officially, that the statistics gathered must not be fed to the general public. That is all, but that is intelligent and enough. University Hall is covered...
...infer, judging from the response of Harvard's psychological department, that the investigation is, essentially of small scientific worth. That would be a specious inference. The refusal of the department to have anything to do with the affair is the explicable refusal of professionals who do not care to risk their reputations on an issue which they did not themselves open and define. The obiter dictum that the questionnaire is incompetent and unscientific may, from their point of view, be necessary in explanation; but it certainly leaves them open to attack on the grounds either that they did not recognize...