Word: summer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last summer the Directors of the Museum discovered in France a set of embroideries hitherto unknown and unpublished, probably done near Valencia in Spain around 1400, a period from which very few embroideries are in existence today. The large cross-shaped orphrey from the back of the chasuble represents the cruicified Christ; at the foot are the emblems of the Passion and a beautifully unified group composed of the Vigin, Saint John and Mary Magdalene. The wood of the cross is carried out in stitches following the grain, and the background is worked in threads of pure gold couched...
Last week President Coolidge designated it as his choice for a hot-weather week-end retreat for future Presidents of the U. S. He asked Congress for $48,000 to remodel it. It would not be a Summer White House, to which the President would move for a long stay. It would simply be a week-end retreat, an escape from the sticky heat of the low Potomac Valley...
...face was yellowish. He looked haggard, nervous, irritable. He sounded querulous. An internal disease, which last summer he feared would kill him before he could complete his newest theory, has made him so. That disease?plus the harrying visitors who buzzed and scraped about him the past fortnight, and years of indoor, sedentary work. Dr. Einstein, like so many other Jews and scholars, takes no physical exercise...
Small income and cultural preferences send the Einsteins to the popular, but not costly, German water resorts for their vacations. Last summer, when the professor was so weak from illness, they were at Luebeck, old Hanseatic town on the Baltic. There Dr. Einstein lolled about in his beach chair or in his sailboat. He likes placid sailing. Once the sails are fixed he stretches out, hands under his head, and idly watches the sky. This he will do for hours...
Last week, in Osakis, Minn., Tommy Gibbons gave $50,000 to build a church. He has a summer home at Osakis and felt he ought to do "something worthwhile" for the town. The name of the church that Tommy Gibbons builds will be The Church of the Immaculate Conception...