Word: summer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Absent from his august seat was Arthur J. O'Keefe, monster (300 lb.) Mayor of New Orleans. The tribulations of the strike had worn him to a frazzle, threatened him with a nervous breakdown. On "leave of absence" he had gone to his summer home at Bay St. Louis, Miss., 50 miles away, to loll in the warm waters of the Gulf...
Carl Geores of Kenilworth, N. J., motored with his Maltese cat to his summer cottage at Mariaville, N. Y., 210 miles. The cat walked back to Kenilworth...
...Champaign, Ill., a Mrs. H. B. Schmidt won a rocking chair marathon when after 280½ hours her only surviving competitor, a man, fell asleep. Said she: "I've spent years training on summer-resort verandas and I'll keep going as long as my machine holds together...
School teachers spending their vacations quietly and safely in libraries and summer camps, or relaxing in foreign cafès from the rigors of disciplinarians, were shocked last week to hear what happened on the vacation of Philip Eaton, chemistry instructor at St. Marks, smart Massachusetts boys' preparatory school. Teacher Eaton had installed himself in a flat in Halfmoon Street, Mayfair, London. There he was found one morning by his housemaid, sprawled in a pool of blood. About his head, face and hands were razor cuts, ghastly after twelve hours of bleeding. On his body were heavy bruises...
...Summer institutes continued to flourish last week. Receiving most attention were still the Institute of Public Affairs, Charlottesville, Va., and the Institute of Politics at Williamstown, Mass. (TIME...