Word: summer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jewess, indefatigable publicist, onetime Hungarian Minister to Switzerland, has been trying for some time to become a U. S. citizen. Because she, in 1915, helped persuade Henry Ford to outfit and command his famed "Peace Ship," she was subjected to specially alert questioning by a Chicago naturalization board last summer (TIME, July 11). When she told the board she was an atheist and that she would not personally bear arms for the U.S. because " I understood that women are not required to bear arms in the United States," the board refused her citizenship. Last week the Schwimmer Case was heard...
Last week the first snow fell in Moscow. It was a signal for hordes of wolflike, grimy orphans to hitchhike back to the capital from their summer "vacation" in the country...
...that vanquished the Atlantic, had made non-stop flights from Paris to Siberia, and again from Paris to Persia. So ably did his ship perform on every occasion (it averaged 110 miles to the hour over the Atlantic), many people thought that, if the weather had been possible this summer, he would have succeeded in a proposed flight from Paris to Manhattan...
Said Tenor Gigli, on tour, in Winnipeg, Man.: "I met the Baroness while in Berlin last summer and our acquaintance developed into strong friendship...
...purport of that message was that all Mormons should return to the underwear prescribed by first Mormon Joseph Smith (1805-1844) which left exposed only the head, hands and feet of pious Mormons and was fastened with strings. Winter & summer for three-quarters of a century, Mormons have worn such underclothes...