Word: season
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trout season neared its close in Wisconsin. President Coolidge learned that trout feed by night as hungrily as in the daytime. He took up fishing after dinner and one evening stayed out until nearly midnight. Another day he caused his gear to be assembled and boarded a special train for Lewis, Wis., some 90 miles away, where lives Charles E. Lewis, Minneapolis broker. The Lewis estate on Seven Pines Creek, like the Pierce estate on the Brule, has its own trout hatcheries in spring-fed ponds. The Presidential catch was 137 (in two sessions). While the President fished, Mrs. Coolidge...
...FRONT PAGE. The new season's first hit-a press room piece, full of sound and flurry (TIME...
Long before the first golden-rod grows bright in far away fields, the yellow lights of the new season are raised above Broadway. By September, usually, the first hit has arrived in town; the streets off Times Square are crammed with stage folk who hope this winter not to play Des Moines; the dramatic critics, yellow and sick from uncustomary contact with the sun, are once more being kittenish on the keys. At the centre of all this glittering activity are the producers; it depends upon them whether the new year shall be tawdry or delightful...
...only one new man among the first-line producers. Younger than the rest but equally successful, he took it easy last week while others were in a ferment of excitement, getting their new offerings ready for the stage. Having already supplied Broadway with the first success of the season, The Front Page, he stated erroneously that he was through producing plays, went to the country, and contemplated not the future but the past...
...Author Morley been alone in his venture, many persons would have supposed that he would soon discover how and where the boos begin. He was not alone. Playwright Harry Wagstaff Gribble and Stage-designer Cleon Throckmorton were his most noteworthy associates. For their first season of production, several plays were mentioned: March Hares, Dracula, The Old Soak, dramatization of Where the Blue Begins, dramatization of Thunder on the Left...