Word: affair
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Pratt and William Hill wanted Alan Fox, good 1928 Hooverizer, to get the job. Last week Mr. Snell brought into the Old Guard's insistence a threat of legislative warfare against the White House. "And it's the chairman of the Rules Committee talking." said he. The affair hung fire...
...lakes and canals next spring, the Government will introduce laws preparatory to a national referendum on Prohibition. (Finland's present Constitution does not provide for public referenda.) Finnish observers credited this parliamentary Wetness last week to the final windup of the famed Stahlberg kidnapping case, an affair whose origin had nothing whatever to do with Prohibition. Two months ago, after frugally breakfasting on bread and butter, porridge and coffee, out for a walk went Finland's George Washington or First President (1919-25)-Professor Kaarlo Juho Stahlberg. With him walked his wife. Esther, one of Finland...
...admirable wife, charming, meek little Helen Hayes. But the Earl of Darnaway has already promised the job to one of his wife's relations, a gentleman of title, many debts, not much sense. Fortunately Miss Hayes discovers that the Countess of Darnaway has had an affair with her husband's aide...
...Companionate Marriage") Lindsey received a court scolding in Manhattan last week for causing a rumpus in Bishop William Thomas Manning's cathedral (TIME, Dec. 15). Bishop Manning refused to prosecute. So subsided the affair, except for a limerick composed by Protestant Episcopal clergymen who dislike Bishop Manning. The limerick...
...wife without the unpleasant notoriety which would ensue should he do the compromising himself. It is inevitable that Mr. Rathbone should fall in love with Miss Andrews, that Mr. Love should become irked, expose the scheme to Mr. Kerr, who has known about it all the time. Gracefully the affair is settled, Mr. Rathbone acquiring a racehorse in addition to the comely wife...