Word: reunioning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dilemma Dr. Hanfstaengl finds himself in looks curiously like another concoction for publicity purposes. To make an issue of President Conant's accepting the reunion donation of the Class of 1909, to which the Nazi press chief had contributed, is mercly an attempt to fight back at Harvard for its refusal to accept his scholarship to the University of Munich. The class donation was a completely impersonal affair as far as President Conant was concerned, and the decision as to who was to contribute to it was up to the Class of 1909 alone. By no stretch of the imagination...
...Philip Merivale) to hear him sing. The composer inspires so much gratitude in Kiepura by giving him a job that Kiepura later leaves the company when he finds the composer is also in love with Miss Swarthout. The complications intervening until the curtain can fall on the Kiepura & Swarthout reunion, after a superb aria in Romeo & Juliet, are concerned with bringing him back, getting rid of the drunken self-worshipping tenor...
After the performance last week there was a family reunion, quiet talk of the mother who died two years ago, of Marcella Sembrich who was Dusolina's teacher, of the late Daniel Mayer, the manager who started her on her career, made it his business to see that she read profitable books, helped her with her programs and her costumes, developed her taste. Absent also was Brother Vittorio, now a recognized composer studying in Italy on a Pix de Rome fellowship...
...probability, they would point with pardonable pride to such a book as Dorothy Sayers' Gaudy Night. Gaudy Night is not such a gaudy title as might be supposed. It refers to an Oxford colloquialism, "gaudy" (from Gaudeamus igitur), which is the equivalent of the U. S. "college reunion." Readers who are unfamiliar with Author Sayers' careful workmanship will find other surprises. Gaudy Night is twice as long (469 pp.) as the average murder story, and Author Sayers has taken at least twice as much pains as the average with her characters and setting. Second, its interest depends almost...
Hanfstaengl blundered first. Instead of doing the usual and unostentatious thing and contributing to the general class twenty-fifth reunion gift, he chose to give his thousand dollars separately and individually, with great fanfare. The rest of his class contributed as a class...