It was a sort of Gotterdammerung affair.

Accordingly the request was granted, but the Elector himself, who had not been consulted by his mother, rejected the proposal and recalled his agent Schutz, whose impolitic handling of the affair had caused the Hanoverian interest to suffer and had made Oxford's dismissal more likely than ever.

The furor was such that people who could not possibly have squirmed their way into the rehearsals were pretending that they were intimate with the whole affair and that it would be sensational.

Then there was the caterer's ad which read: `` are you getting married or having an affair??

After the preliminary business affair was finished Depew arose and delivered the convincing speech that clinched the nomination for Roosevelt.

But her personality was such that each affair lasted only until that lover, too, had been conquered and reduced to passivity.

The Greek evidently fell for her, `` Monsieur X '' recounted, and to clinch what he thought was an affair in the making he gave her 100,000 francs ( about $300 ) and led her to the roulette tables.

Garth was prepared to be helpful in what he referred to with fastidious distaste as this unfortunate Johnston affair, which would not, he said more than once, have ever come about if Mrs. Meeker had only seen fit to consult Mr. Hohlbein or him about it.

The Franck symphonic poem, `` Psyche '', is a lush, sweet-sounding affair that was pleasant to encounter once again.

Seward's initial reaction to the Trent affair, however, was too bellicose, so Lincoln also turned to Senator Charles Sumner, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and an expert in British diplomacy.

It was a low-scoring affair on a difficult wicket.

The 1938 series was high-scoring affair with many high-scoring draws, resulting in a 1 – 1 result, Australia retaining the Ashes.

But her paternity was questioned, as rumour said the king was impotent and the queen, Joan of Portugal, had an amorous affair with a nobleman named Beltrán de La Cueva.

Thrace was Ares ' birthplace, true home, and refuge after the affair with Aphrodite was exposed to the general mockery of the other gods.

Parthenius of Nicaea recorded a love affair between Odysseus and Aeolus ' daughter Polymele ; the latter was said to have ended up betrothed to her own brother Diores.

Other well-known Berg compositions include the Lyric Suite ( 1926 ), which was later shown to employ elaborate cyphers to document a secret love affair ; the extraordinarily elaborate post-Mahlerian Three Pieces for Orchestra ( completed in 1915 but not performed until after Wozzeck ); and the Chamber Concerto ( Kammerkonzert, 1923 – 25 ) for violin, piano and 13 wind instruments: this latter is written so conscientiously that Pierre Boulez has called it " Berg's strictest composition " and it, too, is permeated by cyphers and posthumously disclosed hidden programs.

Their relationship was complicated by Trintignant's frequent absence due to military service and Bardot's affair with musician Gilbert Bécaud, and they eventually separated.

Disraeli's biographers agree that Vivian Grey was a thinly veiled re-telling of the affair of The Representative, and it proved very popular on its release, although it also caused much offence within the Tory literary world when Disraeli's authorship was discovered.

Of these only Henrietta Temple ( based on his affair with Henrietta Sykes, wife of Sir Francis William Sykes, 3rd Bt ) was a true success.

The Lions tour to Australia in 1989 was a short affair, being only 12 matches in total.

In September 2002 it was revealed that, prior to his promotion to the cabinet, Major had himself had a long-standing extramarital affair with a fellow MP, Edwina Currie.

* Profumo Affair ( 1963 ): Secretary of State for War John Profumo had an affair with prostitute Christine Keeler ( to whom he had been introduced by pimp and drug-dealer Stephen Ward ) who was having an affair with a Soviet spy at the same time.

Shortly afterward, Patterson returned to England with Mrs. Blyth amid rumours of murder and an affair, and although he was never officially charged or censured, this incident would follow him for years afterward in British society, and was most notably referenced in the film The Macomber Affair ( 1947 ) which was based on Ernest Hemingway's adaptation of the incident.

With the candidacies of a few celebrities and many regular Californians, the entire affair became a joke to some ( there were tongue-in-cheek references to Schwarzenegger's role within the Science Fiction film Total Recall ) as well as an " only-in-California " event.

Her affair with Peter Townsend and the Queen's dealing with this was the subject of the first episode of the Channel 4 Docudrama The Queen in which she was portrayed by Katie McGrath

The episode was a surrealistic Busby Berkeley-in-space affair which prefigured conceptual MTV videos by decades.

* W. G. Sebald in The Rings of Saturn recounts the episode of Joseph Conrad who was shot or shot himself in the chest allowing him to " Cut the Gordian Knot " of a stormy love affair.

In 1986, in an episode that became known as The Iran – Contra affair, the Reagan administration illegally facilitated the sale of arms to Iran, the subject of an arms embargo, in the hope that the arms sales would secure the release of hostages and allow U. S. intelligence agencies to fund the Nicaraguan Contras.

In the episode Season 12 " Three Men and a Bastard " John Redcorn finds out he had a daughter, named Kate, by a woman named Charlene ( who had a son three years after the affair with John Redcorn ; the father of her son is not talked about ), during the same period that he was having an affair with Nancy Gribble.

Amongst those shows rediscovered were many that feature Monkhouse himself, including The Flip Side, a 1966 play starring Monkhouse as a television DJ with his own late night show, and the 1958 series of his comedy My Pal Bob including an episode in which he is suspected of an extramarital affair.

" At the end of each episode, he asks a series of life-or-death questions in a deliberately deadpan style —" Will Jessica discover Chester's affair ...?

* In the television show King of the Hill, it is revealed in an episode that the protagonist Hank has an Amerasian half-brother named Junichiro, the result of an affair between Hank's father and a nurse during his stay in post-World War II Japan.

On October 29, 44 leading clergymen, including Dean Francis B. Sayre, Jr. of Washington National Cathedral, United Presbyterian Church Leader Eugene Carson Blake, Methodist Bishop John Wesley Lord, American Hebrew Congregations President Maurice Eisendrauth, and theologians Paul Tillich and Reinhold Niebuhr, issued a letter commenting on the Jenkins affair: "" We see the Jenkins episode as a case of human weakness.

This episode subsequently became known as the " Easton affair ".

The Doctors ' plot ( Russian language: дело врачей affair, врачи-вредители or врачи-убийцы ) in 1952 / 53 was the most dramatic anti-Jewish episode in the Soviet Union during Joseph Stalin's regime, involving the " unmasking " of a group of prominent Moscow doctors, predominantly Jews, as conspiratorial assassins of Soviet leaders.

The Times criticized Rothman by name in a stinging editorial describing the episode as " a shabby affair " that " shines much-needed light on the insidious ways that politicians can influence regulatory decisions — and the insidious influence of money in politics.

In March 2011, Rodriguez made an appearance in an episode of NBC's Harry's Law, titled " Send in the Clowns ", as a transgender woman fired after an affair with a club owner was exposed.

In the wedding episode, maid-of-honor Murphy, dressed as an antebellum belle in a hoop-skirted nightmare of a bridemaid's dress, rages her way through the entire affair while thwarting the press's attempts to photograph the nuptials ( mirroring the Sean Penn / Madonna wedding a few years earlier ).

In 1975 ; during the series first season, episode 21 ; Muldauer played " Mrs. Banister ", a woman who has an affair with a former cell mate of the series ' title character.

On the June 21 episode of Impact Wrestling, Styles and Carter revealed their secret ; they were not having an affair, but were instead together helping an addicted pregnant woman named Claire Lynch overcome her problems.

Da is shot and killed by Ma and Dympna in the last episode after it is revealed he prevented Liam Neeson from proposing to Dympna and was suspected by Ma of having an affair with a woman named Siobhan, who also tries to kill Da, but misses.

This episode, of love and excitement against the background of the Great Frost, is one of the best known, and is said to represent Vita Sackville-West's affair with Violet Trefusis.

In the second-season episode " Somebody's Going to Emergency, Somebody's Going to Jail ," Sam finds out that his father has been having a twenty-eight-year affair while married to his mother, a revelation that deeply shakes his sense of what he can and cannot count on.

In the episode " Mother's Day ", it is revealed that some of her bitterness originates from an ill-fated romance with Professor Farnsworth 70 years earlier, who, while reformatting the basic robot design, terminated their affair following savage rows about his work.

The story of Brigham Anderson's homosexual love affair, its exposure, and his suicide, was based on a real political episode.

* The Golden Girls episode " An Illegitimate Concern " ( season five, episode eighteen ); Upon learning her dead husband, George, fathered an illegitimate son, played by Mark Moses of Desperate Housewives fame, during the course of their marriage, Blanche Devereaux ( Rue McClanahan ) decries this turn of events claiming she once passed up an affair with a noted journalist of 60 Minutes fame to uphold her vows.