Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jordan, beautiful daughter, smitten by an unfortunate love for the star. All the guests who are invited have unfortunate dealings with one another before the fatal night. An elaborate suicide by gas, the ruin of Jordan's fortune, the estrangement of Packard and his wife, the detection of an affair between Mrs. Packard and Dr. Talbot lead up to the grand anticlimax--the Forncliffes cannot attend the dinner in their honor...
...moves rapidly through 16 cinematographic scenes of the high and low life of Manhattan. Lyda Cose and Don Ellis, a pair of rich and vicious flibbertigibbets, meet Eve Haron and Honey Rogers, a miniature crime wave, in a sordid resort. Lyda and Don are carrying on a puny little affair, are attracted to Eve and Honey because, although they may not be good citizens, they appear to love each other very dearly ?so dearly, in fact, that when the law closes upon them, Honey kills a prison guard to get to Eve. Eve breaks out of a detention home...
Such a Utopian reform, of course, lies in the very distant future, but the great merit of the Institute is that it has no illusions. Rather than let the whole affair slide, its graduates are ready to attack immediate penal problems that can be mended without any sweeping changes. Furthermore, it augurs well for future success that the Institute does not act on the basis of sentimental humanitarianism, but rather from a scientific interest in social welfare. There are and will be many obstacles in its road, including the ponderous weight of a legal mechanism that is very difficult...
...program will include the "Coronet Quintet" by Mozart, the "First Movement of the Quartet" by Debussy and the Haydn Quartet. The affair will be informal, and ladies may be invited to supper and the concerts...
...caused a tense situation in Australia's little Navy. At Melbourne's navy pier last week 200 enlisted men walked ashore in protest at the Government's pay cuts. Australian officers worried. Just so did the British naval mutiny at Invergordon start last year (TIME. Sept. 28, 1931), an affair that became more serious than British papers have yet admitted, and according to British standards, Australian discipline is notoriously lax.* Apparently Australian tempers are better. After threatening the Government the men returned to quarters, the fleet sailed for training at Jervis Bay. Minister of Defense Sir George Pierce announced that...