Word: reunion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...coming with Ovis Poli" was the baffling telegram received by the secretary of the class of 1912, in charge of the reunion of his class here on classday, next Wednesday, Further investigation revealed that the telegram was signed by Kermit Roosevelt '12, recently returned from a scientific expedition to Asia, and that his message referred to a rare sheep found in the uplands of the East, and which the son of the former President is presenting to the University...
...terrific banalities that constitute life for the average Americano-that ubiquitous creature that no one ever sees in his own shaving mirror. Husbands and wives are the chief butt of Lardnerian irony, nor has he yet exhausted his variations on the subject. "The Love Nest," "Who Dealt?" and "Reunion" - all connubia- are the three best tricks in this new bagful, unless you choose "Haircut," wherein a smalltown barber unconsciously reveals his hero as a downright skunk. Most of the stories reflect the writer's present environment (Manhattan), figuring producers, stage folk, song-johnnies and the like. In "Women...
...happiness on the seventh floor of a Paris lodging house, via "the hose", the war, and faith in God, in man, and the "idea". The war is a far cry, but what else could effect half so nicely a marriage in the sight of heaven alone, and a reunion four years later with a blinded, but indomitable husband in Poilu blue...
...Reunion...
...impression that Mr. Depew knew him for a living man no longer. And to each of the three it was quite apparent that Mr. Depew had lost his heart, if he had not sold his soul, to healthily, vigorously mature '89. So that even were a '56 reunion patched up after all, they could hardly hope to find their old classmate the contented, wholehearted companion of years gone...