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Word: picnicers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Following out a custom, inaugurated last year the Senior Class will hold a celebration in the Yard tomorrow evening. Taking the place of the famous Senior picnic of the past, the celebration will be open only to Seniors and will be held in the Yard between Holworthy, and Grays which will be fenced off for the occasion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1924 TO CELEBRATE INSTEAD OF PICNIC | 5/21/1924 | See Source »

...certain element of curiosity, also, should provide stimulus, if stimulus is necessary. In the old days the graduating class used the funds resulting from Freshman enthusiasm to finance a mad, glad celebration, with no holds barred, in the form of a picnic. No picnic was held last year, however, and what became of the money not used for the very mild entertainment that was staged is a dark secret. Rumor has it that the proceeds were devoted to charity, but then rumor is unreliable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE WIDOW'S MITE? | 5/7/1924 | See Source »

...acclaimed "the greatest affair in modern times." His triumphant entrance and forced march (unhappy man!) around the hall, preceded by the Mayor and Mayoress and the "perspiring City Fathers" and followed by the entire assemblage which fell in behind, "whooping and cheering like a Sunday School class at a picnic"-and then, the ungrateful wretch returning to England and writing his dreadful American Notes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Fabulous Forties* | 3/24/1924 | See Source »

...Theatre Guild on a picnic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Point With Pride: Mar. 17, 1924 | 3/17/1924 | See Source »

...magic. He gives a deft and sensitive picture of the lad who discovers that love has its morning-after taste also. William Ingersoll and Josephine Hull (as his parents) and Orlando Daly and Helen Westley give veracious performances in an engaging production that shows the Theatre Guild on a picnic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: All God's Chillun | 3/17/1924 | See Source »

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