Word: affaires
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harlem, Satchelmouth announced that he could not go to the funeral. "Poor John," he mourned, "he was a great guy." Poor John's relatives announced that they and not the Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club were running this funeral, reduced it to a respectable affair with only one band, pall bearers in tuxedos and white gloves, no grass skirts, no coconuts. Said John Metoyer's heir apparent to the Zulu presidency, Charles Fisher: "If it was me and I died right now, I'd have the biggest funeral in the history of New Orleans...
...Harvard and Yale men will know better. They will understand that these two great liberal universities are really sisters under the skin. Squabbles like the Browder affair may come a dime a dozen, but they will never really loosen John's and the Bulldog's tenacious grip upon true intellectual freedom. Etiquette may change, but Harvard and Yale will always mind their manners when free speech is vitally concerned...
...Three dances on one ticket" will be the theme of tonight's combination dance given by Leverett, Winthrop, and Eliot Houses. The affair is under the direction of a central committee composed of Mason Fernald '40, Henry A. Burgess '40, and Robert J. Glazer...
...Three for one" will be the theme of Saturday evening's triple House affair...
...Someone on the inside had a hand in the affair. All was far from well in self-encircled Germany last week, and in the beer-hall gathering there were old-line Nazis, bred on anti-Communist doctrine and bitter about the Russian pact; ambitious, frustrated Party chiefs; veterans still rankling over such ruthless purges as that of Ernst Roehm...