Word: picnicers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...custom for the Senior and Freshman pictures to be taken on the same afternoon. The Seniors, after their picture had been taken, would hold up the next picture until the first year men had thrown out enough money to them to pay for the Senior class Picnic...
...When the Picnic was abolished, the Senior beggings became occasions for interclass riots. These reached a climax last year, when the damage to Widener and to caps and gowns made it advisable to do away with the ceremony...
Clarence Dillon, investment banker: "Mortgage Bond Salesman Josiah Kirby (now in Atlanta penitentiary) used to hire special trains to picnic his salesmen. Last week 700 employes and officials (all male) of the National Cash Register Co., which I bought a year ago, (TIME, Jan. 11, 1926) sailed for Havana on the Holland-American liner Volendam, chartered especially for them...
...Their mothers were two of the beautiful, gifted, famed MacDonald sisters. The other two MacDonalds married Painters Sir Edward Poynter and Sir Edmund Burne-Jones. Rudyard Kipling derived his Christian name from the lake in Staffordshire where his father and mother met for the first time, at a picnic...
...look. Again he looked at his paper. Here was his name in print! What had he done? Dastardly impudence! Oh! . . . This was not the Wall Street Journal. He was reading the Bawl Street Journal, its gay, impish perfect imitation which the Manhattan Bond Club issues for its annual picnic. Now he could settle down to enjoy the neighborhood merriment...