Word: summer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Returning from a weighty conference at the summer palace of Little Tsar Boris, frugal Prime Minister Andrei Liaptcheff last week bounced in the back seat of his ancient, rattling limousine while his chauffeur wheeled the car down the rutty road to Sofia. Near Varna, not far from the palace, the Liaptcheff limousine swerved round a curve, slewed against the glossy high-wheeled cart of a rich Bulgarian peasant...
Died. Col. Abraham Gilbert Mills, 85, of Manhattan, Civil War veteran, Otis Elevator Co. official, onetime (1882-85) National Baseball League president; at his summer home, Terrace Gardens, Mass...
John Coolidge, railroad clerk who this summer started work for the New York, New Haven & Hartford R. R. at $30.16 per week, signed a lease on a $78 apartment (4 rooms) in New Haven, Conn., for himself and wife-to-be, Miss Florence Trumbull. Miss Trumbull approved modern conveniences already installed, ordered washtubs. Wrote Citizen Calvin Coolidge last month: No newly married couple should pay more rent per month than the husband earns per week...
...Knute Rockne, grizzled Notre Dame football coach, famed for frowning and talking dolefully about great teams before they went into action, lately spoke to a group of coaches at Northwestern University's summer school. Said he: "Pessimism as applied to football has been worked to death. It is time to swing back the other way. . . . Hereafter I will present a more or less radiant picture of my prospects." Of Notre Dame's nine games this fall, not one will be held in South Bend...
...North Shore clubwoman). Director is Stanley Hart White, associate professor of landscape architecture at the University of Illinois. Students are picked yearly from the architectural schools of five Midwestern institutions-Iowa State College, the universities of Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, and Armour Institute of Technology (Chicago). They study in the summer session under architects of the Chicago region, on the campus of Lake Forest College. Thus far difficulty has been encountered finding really able candidates for instruction. Most Midwestern architectural students feel the need of going to old-established-and foreign-influenced-schools such as Pennsylvania, Columbia, Yale, and spending their...