Word: seasons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...four years in city hall represent the Silly Season in American city government...
...Saratoga Association for the Improvement of the Breed of Horses last week figuratively rubbed its hands. Its horse-racing season had opened. The fat figure of Harry ("Hot Dog") Stevens seemed to grow fatter as he turned hungry people away from his race track club. The red face of Edward J. Tranter, potent Saratoga auctioneer, seemed to grow redder as he thought of the $5,000,000 worth of horse flesh that had arrived. Names of Whitney. Riddle, Widener, Vanderbilt, Sinclair, dutifully took their places on the "boards" as the week advanced. On shaded streets leading to the track rolled...
...with 500 more guarantors than before, the amount each paid was relatively small. Next year will be Chicago's banner opera year, beginning in a great new opera house on Wacker Drive, with an imposing list of singers and conductors engaged and re-engaged for the season...
August, however, is unofficially recognized as the first month of the new season. Established dramatic chefs then send out appetizers, begin to announce the rich fare which is to follow. NowaDays, first play of the new season, is reviewed below. A forecast of other August theatrics follows...
...Each season has its rage...