Word: summer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...territory have been attacked by armed robbers. . . . Superiority of our firearms prevented bloodshed. In spite of Tibet passports, expedition forcibly stopped by Tibetan authorities on Oct. 6, two days north of Nagchu. . . . With inhuman cruelty expedition has been detained for five months at altitude of 15,000 feet in Summer tents amidst severe cold, about minus 40 degrees Centigrade...
Behind Mrs. Anne U. Stillman's smile when she recently returned to Manhattan from her "third honeymoon" with Banker James Alexander Stillman was a journalistic secret, let out only last week when she was hidden in Canada. This summer she will publish a weekly magazine containing news, society items and photographs. Each week she will sign an article interesting to women. Mrs. Stillman is chairman of the publishing company. Her editor is Herbert B. Mayer, the New York Mirror reporter who ably dug up enough gossip to force the second Hall-Mills murder trial two years ago. The name...
...finger at the end of the Law's long arm in Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania is a tall gaunt man named Robert G. Elliott, official executioner for those four States. After society had finally decided it must take the lives of Communists Sacco & Vanzetti last summer, it was Executioner Elliott who threw the electric switch. He also killed Ruth Snyder, Judd Gray, and over 100 less famed criminals. When he took up his profession in 1926 he tried to keep it secret. But his name leaked out after a year. He has been uneasy ever since...
...made, covering Italy, Turkey, Rumania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Latvia, Belgium and Argentina, the agents listened to a high pressure, inspirational harangue by Chairman Rykov. He threatened a general curtailment of salaries, unless they produce in the near future "more impressive disturbances . . . such as the Vienna riots of last summer," when some 100 Austrians were killed and the Ministry of Justice was burned (TIME, July 27). Even this potent disturbance, stormed Comrade Rykov, had been partially bungled. Secondly the agents were ordered to work for a general liaison between Red Cells so that these may form an international Communist force...
...could but set the stage-parlor furniture to dust in the morning, geraniums to cut by the garden gate-and wait in vain for the hero. From an upper window she watched for him, a middle-aged neighbor. The sharp ledge cut into her arms, the heavy scent of summer flowers filled her with longing, but her neighbor kept to himself. Adrienne tossed sleeplessly at night, traced listlessly the immutable pattern of her dull existence, suffered torments from her suspicious parent...