Word: resorted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having Wonderful Time (by Arthur Kober; Marc Connelly, producer), the season's pleasantest institutional drama, is laid in one of the numerous cheap summer camps for New York Jews which dot the Berkshires. Those who have not visited such a resort as Camp Kare-Free may already be familiar with the nature of its patrons through Arthur Kober's piteous, humorous, sharply observed New Yorker reports, collected in book form as Thunder over The Bronx, on the year-round behavior of one-sixth of New York City's population...
George Frobisher is a he-sprinter who lives a carefully protected life with his spinster aunt. Both of them have plenty of money, spend their lives playing first-rate croquet and bridge, keeping aloof from any sort of unpleasantness. At a French health resort George meets a Dr. Finchatton, an intense fellow who has come there for treatment of his badly jangled nerves. Finchatton spins George a ghostly yarn: he had had a country practice in England in a place called Cainsmarsh, just the kind of quiet district he wanted. Before he had been there very long, the place began...
...bored, has sat down at the table of the world, shuffled the cards, and is now diverting himself with a variety of solitaire called Idiot's Delight. That is the cosmic view as modernized by Robert E. Sherwood, Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne are made to sit in a resort hotel in the mountains of Italy that were Austria's not so long ago and welcome in the Second World War. "Onward Christian Soldiers" comes forth from them and the piano to mingle with the crash of bombs and the tinkle of glass in the sporadically lit-up darkness...
Chelan is situated at the outlet of Lake Chelan, about four miles west of Columbia River and about 90 miles (air line) southwest of Grand Coulee Dam, is about 1,200 feet above sea level. The general description your reporter gave of this beautiful eastern Washington pleasure resort and diversified farming district will prove very distasteful to many loyal Washingtonians who are aware of the regal beauties and productive resources abounding in Lake Chelan district (not in "broad Chelan Valley," because there is no valley in the district that has a width of more than 4 miles...
...circuit courts of appeal. Yet these very appeal courts, which eliminate much of the work the Supreme Court would otherwise have to look after, Mr. Roosevelt would remove from the course of important cases, in his misdi-rected efforts to gain a more rapidly functioning court of last resort...