Word: affaires
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...welfare of the Union. The purchase of a car on credit has become the greatest danger to the Union. There is nothing today which so seriously threatens ruination for farmers as the motor car evil. "When a car is bought on credit the transaction ceases to be a private affair, as the state will eventually have to pay for the foolishness of these people. I would favor the withdrawing of all state land bank facilities from farmers who do not pay for their cars...
...July 18, 1927). To gain time, His Royal Highness pleaded that he must consult Court Chamberlain Hiott. Passed two days. Then Court Chamberlain Hiott publicly denied with appropriate indignation that Her Majesty the Dowager Queen Marie had communicated any statement, interview or intimation whatsoever to Universal. "I consider this affair," said he, "a shameful scandal!" Epilog: Eight-year-old King Mihai was trotted out in his first long trousers to receive the homage of the entire cabinet, shake the hand of previously rebuffed Regent Constantin Saratzeanu...
...professional man can spread his reputation is by getting research published, demonstrating at a clinic, having his patients gossip about his work, and presenting himself to his colleagues for personal study. So some 3,000 men and a few women took time to display themselves at Chicago. The big affair of the week was the Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons, whose Fellows include all the good practitioners of the country. Attending members studied and discussed hospital improvement plans, cancer research, industrial surgery, treatment of fractures, eye-ear-nose-&-throat surgery, care of crippled children. Acrimonious...
...fingerprint studio, are meaningless when separated from the context but uproarious in it. Originally Welcome Danger was three hours long. Lloyd cut it himself at previews in a small town near Los Angeles, marking cuts whenever the audience stopped laughing. Best shots: Lloyd's account of his love-affair with a girl whose picture he obtained from a photomaton machine that functioned faultily; the fight with the dope ring; getting the police commissioner's fingerprint. The Devil's Pit (New Zealand). None of the many cameras searching out strange races of the world has ever caught...
...Saturday class during autumn is a dismal, sparsely attended affair at best. The Saturday one o'clock that concern undergraduates, to whom theoretically the first interest in the football team belongs, are very few. The half-hour surplus allowed at the start of the afternoon would hardly lead an earnest football follower to the classroom in preference to the pre-game practice. Of course the present October must be concluded with the last quarter of the game a matter for investigation in the Sunday sports section; but posterity is still to be considered, and in its behalf the faculty might...