Word: summer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chief Justice (William Howard Taft) had returned to Washington early, after a frolicsome 71st birthday (with eleven grandchildren) at his summer lodge at Murray Bay, Quebec. Prior to convening his eight Supreme colleagues, he held a three-day conference with the senior judges of the U. S. Circuit Court. He informed President Coolidge that five additional Federal judges should be benched in Manhattan and Brooklyn to cope with the mounting arrears of Prohibition and tax cases...
Actors and esthetes and opera singers return to their stamping grounds in the autumn. As the leaves fall from the trees, to pile in crackling heaps on roadsides, the people of the artistic world gather themselves together, frayed with the merry ardours of the summer, into troublesome bunches, to be lifted and scattered by weird, enthusiastic winds. None should know all this better than Harold Fowler McCormick, the mildly extravagant reaper scion of Chicago...
...cancelled by five feet on the green; not so in polo. Yet, there have been great women players. Mrs. Thomas Hitchcock, who must now be nearly 65, taught Winston Guest, as well as her own sons, the game; it would be difficult to say on how many summer mornings this superb lady has been seen on her field in Westbury, telling a crowd of youngsters what was wrong with their play. That field has been the nursery and Mrs. Hitchcock the nurse of International Polo...
College openings, equinoxes of the sun and the end of daylight saving time to the contrary the summer is not over for the vast body of Americans until the World's Series has come and gone. Today when the two best baseball teams in the United States meet in New York for the first game in this year's series, not even the autumn chill that usually accompanies it will turn the minds of on lookers from the great national game to those more vigorous fall sports soon to eclipse it. For the next week baseball is king...
During the summer months several students in the Department of Military Science availed themselves of the opportunity to spend some enjoyable and instructive months at the Revere Officers' Training Camp at Ticonderoga, N. Y. The camp, which is located at Fort Ethan Allan lies among the historic and scenic hills of upper New York...