Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...janitor, frankly bored with the whole affair, wrote on his blank that he'd just as soon see Kaiser Wilhelm become king. "He's the late king's cousin, and if we learn by our mistakes, think how much he's learned...
Lockhart made his sentimental journey a pretty stately affair. He expected trouble about a leave of absence from his boss, Lord Beaverbrook. But that Napoleonic publisher, who had read Lockhart's account of his youthful indiscretion with Amai, betrayed that hushed sentimentality that seems as much a British characteristic as muddling through. "I suppose," he wrote, "that you are going in search of the little wooden shoes." This referred to Lockhart's description of his separation from Amai, when his last glimpse had been of her little wooden shoes outside his bungalow. So, in 1935, in company with...
...rice annually (the total Carolina yield now being 159,930,613 Ib.), with each plantation surrounded by low flooded fields, serpentine embankments, miles of "translucent grain." Life on the Rice Coast was an amiable, well-fed, leisurely affair, with planters' incomes ranging from $5,000 to $70,000 a year, with "factors"' in the cities taking care of all buying and selling and regular crops requiring careful but not arduous attention. Even the many slaves had an easier time of it than elsewhere in the South, since their labor was usually finished between one and four...
There will be no Lowell House party for parents similar to last year's affair held this year it was learned yesterday from Julian Lowell Coolidge '95, professor of Mathematics, and Master of Lowell House...
...chief recommendation for a remission of this bad-tempered bickering is the necessity for England to return her attention to the critical condition of matters international. This Simpson affair has interrupted a far more important matter, the good work of keeping England out of the general imbroglio. The rearming has continued, but that alone is scarcely calculated to relieve the tension. France, refusing to pass judgment on the matriminial spat, has at the same time become quite uneasy over the state of the alliance. England must promptly forget her relatively piffling human interest story, and turn to things that...