Word: season
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Coolidge anticipated the end of his vacation season and began to go forth from his secluded island and mingle more with the people. He planned a morning ride all through the streets and ore docks of Duluth, Minnesota. He planned a trip on the yacht of H. L. Gary of Kansas City to the Apostle Islands in Lake Superior. He journeyed, taking Mrs. Coolidge and son John Coolidge with him, to Wausau, Wisconsin, for a state convention of the American Legion, where he clapped a red "overseas" cap on his head and made a speech praising the war-renouncing...
Every now and then, what the newspapers call an "epidemic" breaks out in the U.S. One season it will be influenza; another season, student suicides; another season, inventions for television or color cinema. This month, gambling scandals were the national "epidemic...
...York, the opening of another horse-racing season at Saratoga Springs brought forth free-spending crowds, who entered the resort's perennial gambling rooms, which then were viewed with loud alarm by political opponents of Governor Smith, who thereupon equally loudly demanded that the Gambling be stopped, together with the Vice that was reported in conjunction. A Manhattan newspaper (Evening Post) soon reported more Gambling and Vice in another New York county (Suffolk). It described a discreet, highly expensive casino on an island near Montauk Point, L.I. The games were said to be "fourth largest in the U.S.," smaller...
Throughout Scandinavia moose hunting is esteemed the noblest use of fire arms. Accordingly there is drastic enforcement of laws protecting wild moose out of season. But next winter a determined Parliamentary lobby will urge modification of the game law in the interest of the Swedish Match Co., a gigantic monopoly of such wealth and potency that it occasionally makes governmental loans to the smaller states of Europe...
...Syrian hop-seller, who seldom bet on a horse except to win. In the course of his wild career, he was often broke and more than once a millionaire. In 1923 he swaggered into New Orleans with a few dollars in his pocket and came away, after the season's racing, with $800,000. A few months later he lost his money and got pneumonia. He went to a hospital and said, "Pneumonia is easy to beat...