Word: affaires
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Here Freshmen eat and make the time-worn jokes about the stuffed animal heads on the wall and the daily menu. Here they spend hours in the pool-room downstairs. And here in May they dance at the Jubilee, last organized class affair before Senior year and Commencement...
...police killed two Japanese-controlled Chinese policemen and wounded six others with a submachine gun, when they attacked him from the rear and, according to his claim, without provocation. Said the Japanese Embassy, after an emergency meeting of Army and Navy officers: "We take a grave view of this affair." Foreigners wondered if Japan would consider it provocation enough once and for all to settle the Settlement...
...mother should "conspire against his wife with that wife's lover." After Caroline wrote Glenarvon (a novel about herself and Byron), its succes de scandale got her ostracized. She took to frequenting other literary persons, among them William Blake and Bulwer Lytton, with whom she had an affair. Said William Blake: "There is a great deal of kindness in that lady." Said Bulwer Lytton: "Wil liam Lamb was particularly kind...
...broke up this amiable relationship: New England-born Edward Colburne, and Virginia-born Lieutenant-Colonel Carter, a dark-haired, hard-drinking, segar-smoking veteran of many wars and love affairs, a widower of nearly 40 who had stayed with the Union despite mysterious intrigues with Southern filibusters before the war. Intelligent, discerning, timid, young Colburne let the Colonel walk off with Lillie. She was almost annoyed about it. Colburne, she thought, was "very pleasant, lively and good; but-and here she ceased to reason-she felt that he was not magnetic." The Colonel certainly was. When all four turned...
...this For early in his writing career, in his volume Sunshine Sketches, Leacock dealt with the small-town doings of his home in Ontario. His yarn of the sinking of the Mariposa Belle with a picnic crowd aboard has the same essence of humour as the real affair did last week. The Mariposa Belle starts to sink and finally rests on the bottom of the lake, with the gunwales still above water and all passengers high and dry. The lifeboat, however, which has come out to rescue them is having a hard time with leaks and goes under just...