Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communist-line Civil Rights Congress, sponsors of the concert, quickly denounced the sorry affair as an attempt to "lynch Robeson." It was hardly that. But it was an example of misguided patriotism and senseless hooliganism, more useful to Communist propaganda than a dozen uninterrupted song recitals by Paul Robeson...
...Family Affair. In Lexington, Ky., Hubert Atchley and James Dawson hired the same lawyer to separate them from their wife, bigamous Beulah Atchley-Dawson...
Take Casanova. While Max goes off to get drunk and pick a fist fight with a Nazi, Jimmy is left alone to conduct-or be conducted in-his first love affair. Later that night, as he stands trembling in his mistress' closet listening to the husband's unexpected return, then as he flees naked down the hotel corridor, clutching his evening shoes and dinner coat, he remembers Casanova and realizes in a flash that this is what his tutors were talking about -the continuity of Western culture...
...rushed to see the pair in Italy. Ingrid and Rossellini stopped work on a movie and went into a huddle with the doctor, but the three emerged with a statement that left the triangle standing (TIME, May 16). Last week, goaded by day-to-day newspaper reports about her affair with balding, 43-year-old Director Rossellini, Ingrid chose to step down off the pedestal under her own power...
...first Feast of Us Others in a decade, the district's alert Communists saw a chance to step in & take over where the Fascists had left off. But the Communists underestimated the alertness of the opposition. While they were debating ways & means to raise money for the affair, the right wing E.N.A.L. (National Organization for Workers' Welfare) blandly announced that it would sponsor the show this year, promptly received a generous donation from the anti-Communist Il Giornale d'ltalia...