Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nevertheless, the Show remained a costly affair, intelligible and entertaining only to those who were showing horses themselves and to their particular social circle. Six years ago the Horse Show's directors decided to go in for showmanship, try to attract the general public. Since 1935 the National has consistently made money...
...rest of the world--for this affair is inherently international--it is obvious that no embassy attache's life is worth the staggering sum demanded. It is equally indisputable that the Jewish Germans, already bled by the Hitler regime, are in no position to pay the forfeit required, Thus, a world whose patience Hitler has frayed twice in the past year should express in terms as strong as those used in the Austrian and Czech crises its disapproval of such barbarianism. To the pleas of France and England, Hitler has already shown himself impervious. But a scowling rebuke from...
...last two periods saw the Crimson register twice each and the Southernors once each. The third Crimson marker was a result of a fairly sustained drive from midfield, with Harding finally going over, and the fourth was likewise a 50-yard marching affair, with Harding again the big offensive gun and the final scorer...
Even the points after touchdowns were odd. Chief Boston kicked one regulation affair, but two were tallied when first Harding and later Frank Foley picked up the blocked pigskin and lugged it across. Cliff Wilson, whose points after touchdowns are few and far between in his life, booted the final extra point...
...From the Loyalist as well as the literary viewpoint, it looks as if Malraux got the better part. For while Hemingway's section (not yet published) is to deal with the clash of the two organized armies. Malraux's, covering the early period, is a swift, tumultuous affair of assaults on barracks, street-fighting, bombing, sniping, chaos, breakneck confusion, which somehow resolves itself into organization and ends in victory...