Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Petty Treason" Why petty? Such conspicuous payment of ransom would cause hundreds of additional kidnappings, and always a large percentage of loss of life for those kidnapped. Such encouragement of crime is in itself a gross, not a petty, affair. "Egregious crime" would seem more completely descriptive than "petty treason...
University of Missouri one day last week. How gay and glamorous the affair would be, the big annual ball of the Engineering School! How red-blooded and stalwart the engineers, who stride the campus daily in corduroys and stout boots, seemingly oblivious to the admiring glances of the coeds! A fig for their rivals the law-students, who garb themselves nattily, strut with walking sticks! Mary Butterfield hummed gaily, her thoughts on the triumph, that would be hers when the engineers crowned her Queen of the Ball. About mid-afternoon she left the sorority house...
...treatment of the student delegation which went to Kentucky last week to investigate the condition of the miners affords a striking example of the way in which the country allows itself to be victimized by a confusion of ideas. In this case practically all the parties concerned in the affair have permitted the essential matter to be beclogged with irrelevancies. The original group, led by Theodore Dreiser and Waldo Frank, raised a cloud of publicity which centered almost exclusively on themselves, and which in the case of Dreiser was of an exceptionally shabby character. The air of ineffective dilettantism which...
...when the International Show began it was largely a commercial affair, organized by the Society of American Florists and Ornamental Horticulturists. Next year the Horticultural Society of New York and the New York Florists Club took it over. In 1922 the Garden Club of America came in; in 1927, the New York State Federation of Gardens. Proceeds from the show are dispensed a dozen ways. Some $40,000 is distributed in prizes. The Horticultural Society gives free exhibitions in its rooms and in the American Museum of Natural History while the Florists' Club has established a fund to provide...
...most amiable entanglement takes place between Rose Berman. a Jewess, and John Cooper, a gentile sailor boy who loves her on leave and off. Their affair scandalizes the Jewish section, who act as self-appointed sympathizers with Rose's invalid mother. Rose runs off to London, consummates her love for Cooper there. A telegram that her mother is dying brings her back to Magnolia Street in a hurry; but after her mother's death she marries Cooper, goes off to live with him elsewhere...