Word: autumns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tomorrow that which is not today's concern, his intimates attribute his unimpaired vigor at an age when most of his business contemporaries are dead or retired after lives which in few cases approached his for fullness or success. "There's luck in leisure," he said last autumn when newsgatherers importuned him for a political utterance. As a political sidestep, it was a neat phrase, but it was more than that. It summed up a good deal of the philosophy of a man who understands that the wisdom of power is in its judicious application, and that politics...
...Royal Academy opens the season. To the Academy's doors came last week lords and ladies, all the best people who live in London, eager to see the pictures and excited at the prospect of saying how-do-you-do to friends they had not seen since the autumn shooting in Scotland. Mrs. Winston Churchill, with three Anglo-Indian ladies, Painter Sir John Lavery with his lady, Margot Asquith, an enormous smile twitching under her hawk nose, Premier Baldwin, in a topper, Ishbel Macdonald with her father, a crowd of college men wearing golf clothes to show their nonchalance...
...English. They were not allowed to help each other, but the smoking of cigarets was permitted. They sat in old Connecticut Hall, where Patriot Nathan Hale once roomed. On the Yale team were eight Phi Beta Kappa men, one dark horse and John Knox Jessup, campus wit, who last autumn wrote on his page in the Yale Alumni Weekly: "Harvard men cannot be said to aim at, for they essentially are, good form...
Probably the most spectacular feature of a successful theatre season in Manhattan has been the gigantic and prolonged good fortune of that wise and prolific producer of plays, Florenz Ziegfeld. Three (Rosalie, The Three Musketeers, Show Boat) of the five shows which he has sponsored since the autumn were playing last week to capacity houses. With the possible exception of The Theatre Guild, no other producer has scored so heavily this winter. Without exception, no other producer has ever enjoyed such consistently large revenues from his theatrical ventures...
...very one in which the late Floyd Bennett had tried to reach Greenly Island, and that it contained, by a fortunate exception in the regulations made especially for him, Marie Marrifield, one of his dancers, who was hurrying to see a sick sister. Ziggy reflected also that next autumn, in Manhattan, he would have two simultaneous Manhattan productions of Show Boat, his greatest hit. He debated with himself whether to hire famed Comedienne Beatrice Lillie (Lady Peel), and he took counsel with himself, while a continent trembled, whether to produce another Follies. Also he wondered how things would go with...