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Non-Fiction

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4. This is not an exact match, but your description reminded me of...

Reply to Freelancer (Original post)

Thu Oct 18, 2018, 03:40 AM

Oct 2018

am episode of the "MASH" TV series in which Col. Potter held a sad get-together in his tent when he found out he was the last survivor of his WWI comrades. They had made an agreement that the last survivor would get a bottle of champagne (I think) which they had liberated in 1918. He said the agreement was a tontine.

MW.com defined "tontine" as : "a joint financial arrangement whereby the participants usually contribute equally to a prize that is awarded entirely to the participant who survives all the others."

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I need help finding a word [View all] Freelancer Oct 2018 OP

aa wake? nt msongs Oct 2018 #1

Not quite what I'm after - see next response - nt Freelancer Oct 2018 #3

"Posthumous". Maybe that word doesn't have the feel you want, for a party, though. No Vested Interest Oct 2018 #2

I'm looking for a word with a curious hook to it... Freelancer Oct 2018 #5

This is not an exact match, but your description reminded me of... Timer Oct 2018 #4

You read my mind as I was typing. Thanks. -nt Freelancer Oct 2018 #6

Is this going to be on the midterm? grantcart Oct 2018 #7

Like this ? eppur_se_muova Oct 2018 #8