Word: affair
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Andree's venture, first of its kind, was founded on what he sincerely believed to be scientific data. It had the financial support of the King of Sweden and Norway and of Alfred Nobel. His balloon, an elaborate affair, measured 97 ft. from the top of the bag (wt. 1½ tons) to the bottom of the two-decked basket. It was rigged with drag ropes and sails, by which Andree was confident the prevailing south winds would blow it over the Pole, 700 mi. away...
...momentary prestige as rescuer, the explorer unburdens himself about his surroundings, analyzes the life of artificiality and compliance to which Sebastian is condemned. He pleads with the boy to come exploring with him. But Sebastian refuses, for his career has already begun: he is having a love affair with his mother's friend, Lady Roehampton...
...absurd to marry him. Garbo has been in better stories but none that suited better her disturbing, almost legendary fascination. Her acting confirms her position as the most important woman in the world's cinema. Gavin Gordon does well enough as the clerical hero. Best sequences: the love affair that begins in a ballroom and develops in a sleighride. Old English (Warner). Although John Galsworthy rewrote his famous short story for presentation on the stage, it was never a play in the strict terms of dramatic construction, but rather the concluding act of the unwritten play that...
...this up too. A Federal censorship was established. Liberal-owned radio stations were closed. Chief of Police Oliveira Sobrinho called editors of opposition papers into his office, pointed out how unfortunate it would be if they should publish "false and misleading" accounts of the assassination or the unfortunate little affair of the ''independent state" in Parahyba...
Camp Director Zarakov unhappily explained his handling of the affair as follows...