Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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First rejoicing at the sudden aloneness, then mortified, he wept while the futility of the whole affair made him laugh...
...Cleveland gathering provided a great carrousel and carousal for flyers and planes. As the affair started 45 plane manufacturers, 16 enginemakers, 146 accessory firms had exhibits in Cleveland's public auditorium and annex. The municipal airport was bedecked with new buildings, grandstands and wire fences. A street parade of floats inaugurated the festivities. Army, Navy and Marine planes performed over the city. Detroit's new all-metal dirigible made a visit. Commercial planes capered in from all directions. Almost every famed U. S. flyer was there, almost every important air industrialist...
...throne in 1858, and therefore he had to wait over 70 years for Good Prince Johann's death and his own accession a few months ago. So good was Johann, in the purest dynastic sense, that Prince Franz lived in daily terror for some 20 years lest his affair with a commoner be found out. His secret morganatic marriage a decade ago scarcely decreased the couple's anxiety. Today the new Mother of Liechtenstein is 51. She and Prince Franz are believed to be childless. Surely, urge their well-wishers, two such devoted lovers may be pardoned much...
...This story about a fashionable woman who insists on the right to make her own mistakes is better than most of such stories. The idea out of which grow its romantic, typically cinematic situations is also the basis of a moment of drama. Greta Garbo has had a love-affair with her chauffeur who committed suicide because he was afraid of spoiling her life. Then she runs away with a painter and has a fine time sailing around on his yacht in warm weather until she finds out that he has tired of her. The moment when she is trying...
...week to English Jews about a Viennese Jew who wanted Jewry to return and live in Palestine. The occasion was a London meeting to memorialize the 25th anniversary of the death of Dr. Theodor Herzl, founder of political Zionism. It was Dr. Herzl who, while reporting the famed Dreyfus affair (1894) for the Vienna Neue Freie Presse, found his attention focused on antiSemitism, his Jewish consciousness aroused.* Two years later, aged 36, he published The Jewish State, a speedily famed pamphlet which, with secular, economic emphasis, advocated Jewish national reunion. Followed congresses, interviews with world rulers, potent propagandizing...