Word: summer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...smiling prophet of woe, Indiana's Senator Watson, now Republican leader, went to the White House to tell President Hoover that the special session of Congress would probably extend through the summer and into the autumn. President Hoover heard this prediction without...
Great was the rejoicing in the wake of this forecast by the cherry trees' public custodian. Last summer the heavens had opened to pour upon Potomac Park a deluge of almost Biblical proportions. For days the cherry tree roots had stood in rotting slime. Their leaves browned, fell off. They were, apparently, dead. But now they had come alive again and were ready to draw multitudes of spring visitors to Washington to gaze in gabbling ecstasy. Great, among Washington's hotelmen and shopkeepers, was the name of Grant who fostered this renaissance...
...Jitney Players. If you spend your summers in New England you may possibly have seen a troupe of mummers trundle into town of a hot summer's night, in motor trucks, unpack their scenery and their costumes and set up a show shop on a tennis court or a golf course. The Jitney Players have been touring in that fashion for six years...
...vicinity of a mushroom congerie of dance halls, picnic groves, gas stations. The village, including houses built when Peter Stuyvesant peg-legged it along the leafy Bouwerie, is to be razed by May 1. The only Eastview buildings to be spared in Rockefeller Land are: "Low-erre," summer home of Chainstorekeeper James Butler; the Westchester County poorhouse; the Tarrytown pumping station...
...time he was director of the National Park Seminary in Forest Glen, Md., near Washington. Perhaps that is why he affixed a "Glen" to the Poughkeepsie "Eden" which he founded in 1910 and moved to Stamford, Conn, in 1919. Before he founded Glen Eden he conducted parties of summer tourists to Europe. His excuse for circularizing ministers to drum up a clientele was that Glen Eden is to be a "Church boarding school," a "worthy project" for which he desired "a discriminating publicity...