Word: reunioning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Field Marshal Sir Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, Viscount Allenby, stiff, soldierly hero of Palestine, reached Quebec bound for a reunion with Canadian War comrades at Toronto. Asked about another war, Lord Allenby pronounced: "The situation is like a number of small boys calling one another names across the street. One says, 'You come on over and fight in my yard.' The other says, 'You come on over and fight in mine.' The result, of course, is that nobody fights...
...preachers sagely nodded while Salem witches screamed and shriveled" ("Wall Reunion." TIME, July 9). Does "shriveled" mean some shrinkage or withering due to natural causes?or did a TIME writer, like those Puritan preachers, nod? In either case, because no modern delusion is more widespread or persistent among intelligent and otherwise well-informed persons than that concerning the manner in which the victims of the 17th Century Witchcraft Delusion perished, will you tell TIME readers exactly how many men and women, in all the American colonies, were ever burned for witchcraft? J. FRANK DAVIS...
Died. Robert Remen Arnold, 36, State Capitol reporter for the Albany Evening News; from a fractured skull caused by falling from a second-story window at Yale University (New Haven, Conn.), where he was attending his 18th class reunion...
...left the Europa in limousines were booed and razzberried on the chance that they might be Dr. Hanfstaengl. He left the pier on a tug provided by the North German Lloyd, dined uptown and went to a night club with Harvard friends bent on escorting him to the reunion at Cambridge of his class of 1909. "You call me 'Putzy' as you did at Harvard," he beamed, "but in Berlin they call me 'Hanfy Hanfstaengl...
...denounced for plagiarizing and had gone home to hang himself; again when Hallem had made a girl pregnant and she had died in an attempt at abortion. In their middle-age both had good wives, children they were proud of; they rarely saw each other. At their 35th class reunion they met for the last time. Roiter was speaker of the evening at the class dinner, envious Hallem merely an unconsidered diner. To show his superiority Hallem got drunk, interrupted Roiter's speech, finally reeled out. laughing. Flallem's wife nursed him through the inevitable physical and mental...