Word: summer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fashionable triumph, indicative of cleverness, to succeed in smuggling personal purchases made abroad, with the sporting risk of paying a 100% fine if caught. One-quarter of fines imposed goes to informers who tip off Customs inspectors. No smart smuggler will tell her best friend, until afterwards. This, the summer season, with tourists jamming every liner, is the time when inspectors are busiest, ladies most cunning...
Prime Minister, hoped to be able to visit the U. S. this summer with Canada's MacKenzie King, to have a talk with President Hoover (see p. 11). It is also official that Edward Price Bell, dean of the foreign staff of the Chicago Daily News, had "sold" the idea, first to Prime Minister King, then to Mr. MacDonald. Among journalists, Edward Price Bell is a Pundit, not only a writer and interpreter but also a molder, a creator of news. He is heir to the dream of the late, great Victor Fremont Lawson, builder of the Chicago Daily News...
Other reasons given for Fuad's presence were that he had come to see a doctor, to bant, to escape Egypt's summer heat, to have...
...Morgan Foster Larson of New Jersey is making substantial repairs to his summer home at Seagirt, N. J. Reason: Last week an airplane piloted by William Taft, Red Bank, N. J., zoomed into the roof, pierced it, stopped with its nose four feet from the empty gubernatorial bed. Greatly alarmed was the Governor's mother, 86, who was about to enter the Governor's bedroom...
Chief Justice William Howard Taft, cheery, straw-hatted, but looking thin, was pushed through Washington's Union Station last week in a wheelchair, on his way to his summer home in Murray Bay, Canada. Mrs. Taft kept him company in another wheelchair. Exhausted by a trip to Cincinnati and back, fearing recurrence of an old bladder ailment, Mr. Chief Justice had been hospitalized for five days, examined, rested, reported sound. Starting north, however, he avoided exertion...