Word: rejoining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gytha Stourton, great-granddaughter of the 19th Baron Stourton and cousin of former British Ambassador Esme William Howard, First Baron Howard of Penrith, sailed to rejoin her fiance, Signer Fiorbanti del Agnese, onetime butler at the British Embassy in Washington. Last summer her father sternly and conclusively told London reporters that any engagement between her and well-born but indigent Signer Fiorbanti del Agnese was "impossible and absurd...
When the War came Yeats-Brown was on leave at home. He was unable to rejoin his regiment but served six months with the cavalry on the Western Front before he was transferred as an observer to the Mesopotamian Flight of the Royal Flying Corps. Once his pilot had to make a forced landing; he was captured by Arabs, turned over to the Turks, who held him prisoner two years. He escaped, lived in Constantinople a while disguised as a German governess, as a German mechanic, was recaptured, escaped again only a fortnight before the Armistice. After...
...found he had no talent for it. He inadvertently assists Hops and Plana during a round-up hunt at which most of their companions perish. In late winter he again saves Plana, famished and freezing, by giving her shelter in his kennel. Plana leaves this comfort, however, to rejoin Hops, who, with the coming of spring, has conquered his pessimism with a gentle Christian philosophy. The two frisk on to the last page, ears a-wiggle, appearing to be, after a year of platonic cohabitation, upon the verge of a deeper intimacy...
...months Royalist agents and pro-Habsburg priests have been circulating petitions to the Vatican, among the devout, recounting stories of miracles occurring near Karl's tomb in the Church of the Madonna del Monte at Funchal, Madeira. Czechoslovakian Catholics, such is the royalist reasoning, may not want to rejoin Hungary, but they are bound to think well of a Hungarian King whose father was the Blessed Karl...
...onetime chief engineer of Dayton-Wright Co. (aircraft): to be president of General Aviation Corp. and Fokker Aircraft Corp., succeeding Harris M. Hanshue who resigned to devote full time to Western Air Express. Also resigned: General Aviation Corp.'s vice president and general manager William T. Whalen to rejoin General Motors...