Word: picnicers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...theatre-party, picnic, games and other forms of outdoor entertainment will constitute the bulk of the program. The Class of 1903 will occupy Smith Halls during Commencement week. The present Freshman occupants of the Smith Dormitories have offered the Class of 1903 the use of these suites over the period of the reunion and are leaving their furniture in the rooms so that the returning graduates and their families may be more completely accommodated...
...sleeping cars are clean and well served. . . . The trains do about 25 miles per hour with frequent stops to fuel at wood piles along the way. . . . About half the passengers usually eat in the diner. The other half buy food from the peasants and have picnic meals in their compartments. The peasants gather at the stations at train time with all kinds of cooked food for sale . . . good bread, golden honey, boiled milk, roast ducks and chickens...
Five hours and 20 minutes after the start, the Stutz coasted into the repair pits, where mechanics swarmed over it like ants on a picnic cake. The foreign car kept droning on its way. Soon the Stutz mechanics shook their heads; their pet had broken a connecting...
...chance of propinquity. A group of English transfer their habits of life to an idle existence on the Italian Riviera, where, unaffected as they are by the land that offers them hospitality, they depend the more upon each other for wherewithal to pass the time away: tennis, botany excursions, picnics, bridge. And every one knows just which the other is doing, and every one knows with whom. There is the agitated little Mr. Lee-Mittison, pathetically chipper when he has organized a picnic, but dashed to nervous gloom when it disintegrates to eggshells and a mackintoshed wife. There...
...Englishmen began to take serious heed when the Manchester Guardian cut loose from decorum and stated that it would be "no picnic" to whip Ibn Saud. Meanwhile the British Laborite Daily Herald cried in frank alarm: ". . . This country is on the verge of war not with a few scattered tribes but with a monarch who has proved his ability and military strength and whose easy defeat cannot be assumed...