Word: severance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tuition that year, he felt that since the boy was sent home in March he should get some money back. Tabor Academy explained that Father Hood had agreed to forfeit whatever money he had paid Tabor in the event his son should for any reason "sever his connection" with the school before the end of the year. As a gesture, Tabor gave back to Father Hood $100. Unsatisfied, Father Hood went to court, sued for the remaining $1,100 on the ground that Tabor had severed Brevoort's connection unreasonably by expelling him without evidence. A Plymouth County, Mass...
...Tennessee Anti-Saloon League. Leaguer Gaston objected that he had been framed by Wets, protested: "I would rather be dead than have such a thing occur." Militant Methodist Bishop Horace Mellard Dubose, the Tennessee League's president, regretfully proclaimed : "There is nothing we can do but sever him from the League. . . . The terrible curse of liquor . . . may lay its hands...
Students playing minor roles are: Benedict Einarson, J.P.F., John H. Huntington '40, Michael Linenthal '37, Howard T. Roman 1G., Richmond Holder '40, and John W. Sever '40. The lead part, that of the tragic Thomas Becket, will be played by the Broadway veteran E. Irving Looke...
...additional nominations, together with the original lists will be announced tomorrow, and both the Senior and Junior elections will be held Tuesday and Wednesday, February 23 and 24. Balloting will be conducted in all the Houses, Dudley Hall, and Harvard, Sever, Emerson, and Boylston Hahs in the Yard...
Planes. More for spectacle than for sales at last week's Show were such ships as the Navy's Grumman fighter, Sever-sky's pursuit ship, the Douglas observation plane, TWA's "Overweather" Northrop and the glider Albatross. Like Ziegfeld show girls, these unique planes drew first looks, but more serious attention went to the chorus of sturdy little troopers lumped by the name "flivver planes." First sale was an Arrow monoplane, powered with a Ford V8, which went to Negro Perry Newkirk for $1,500. Even cheaper was the Taylor Cub, over...