Word: season
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appeared at the last and most brilliant court of the season in attire which attracted even more attention than the blazing massive diamonds on Queen Mary's stately bosom. Not since the late, lantern-jawed Col. George Harvey called down the sarcasm of the U. S. press by reverting to them in 1921, has a U. S. Ambassador to England failed to wear silk knee-breeches to Court. Ambassador Dawes, Chicago hustler, went in his none-too-neat dress suit with long trousers. Next day he read with relish in London's conservative Morning Post...
...Work. Able Editor Page needed little assistance and young Russell Doubleday turned his attention to the book-publishing end of the firm's business. But always he kept an interested eye on World's Work, wrote articles for it, was its advertising manager for a season...
Chautauqua. Last week Chautauqua Institute opened its 56th annual session on the shores of Chautauqua Lake, N. Y. Some 300 varied programs will be crowded into an eight-week season, including 41 symphony concerts, eight popular operas in English. Conductor: Albert Frederic Stoessel of Manhattan's Oratorio Society...
...season's greatest rowing week was last Week...
...Richard Glendon Jr., captained by Horace Davenport, considered this year's greatest Eastern crew. Cornell and the Navy were considered worth watching. Few thought there was much chance of a Wisconsin victory because, on account of late ice, Wisconsin did not start rowing this year in good season. Washington, which had beaten Wisconsin, seemed a powerful heavy crew but Washington had been defeated on the Pacific coast by California. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which entered the regatta for the first time this year, Pennsylvania, coached by Russell ("Rusty") Callow, onetime (1923-27) coach of Washington, and Syracuse, which...