Word: aprils
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vagabond has little or no patience with the scheme of things which reserves the first of January for good resolutions and the first of April, a mere three months later, for practical jokes. So he feels that he is wholly within his rights in making a resolution on the first of May--namely that his suggestions for the second day of this month eschew the consideration of laudable but after all secondary matters such as excursions up the river and Divisional Examinations, in favor of what is in the last analysis his particular line of activity: the academic...
...game, which had been postponed from April 17 because of rain, was called at the end of the first half of the eighth inning...
...Vagabond, at least, the month of April will close in a manner amply compensating for any unpleasantnesses it may have been responsible for in its younger weeks. It is a rare occasion when he is privileged to hear lectures on two subjects as attractive to him as are the two feature numbers on his program for today. The first is at twelve o'clock, when Professor Davison will speak on Old English music and illustrate his talk with selections. This is the first of two such lectures; the second to be given at the same time on Thursday morning...
...month in Mentone. Prosperous are both divisions of the McAneeny family. In March, Hudson shipped 44,295 cars, exceeding its March 1928 (record month) production by almost 11,000. Hudson-Essex, combined, produced more than 108,000 units in the first three months of 1929, are scheduled for an April production of 45,000. Hudson enjoyed a record-breaking first quarter in 1929, earning $4,567,783 or $2.68 per share. Production included 1,585 cars sent abroad and 6,178 to Canada, greatest Hudson export mark. Plants are operating at capacity (1,900 cars daily) but the number...
...breeze wafted too softly for such morbid reflections, so that suddenly what with the spring and all there flashed into his mind-one of those inspirations for which the Vagabond is famous-a line of what might, with judicious help of the riming dictionary, be a poem: "If April comes can May be far behind." It had a familiar ring; the vibration, he thought which shivers through all great poetry. But no, its ring was too familiar; he had heard something very much like it before. And then he remembered-and both his poem and the beauty...