Word: summer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present Crown Princess Juliana of the Netherlands, plump product of a mother who has definitely settled down. Birthday Flush. On the 70th birthday of Queen Emma, last week, the chief demonstration took the form of a cavalry charge by 150 horsemen up the leafy avenue of the Summer Palace. The cavalrymen were of 21 nations and are in Holland as equestrian performers in the famed Olympic Games (see p. 24). Netherlands recalled that Her Majesty Queen Wilhelmina exhibits a pious, Protestant aversion for the Olympic Games, which she regards as a deplorable pagan survival from the pre-Christian days...
...debts. Ceaseless and ever potent must be Finance Minister Mosconi's fecund activity. Inspiring to him, last week, was the fact that Italy's germinal grain fields are now sprouting and flourishing with an activity announced to promise bumper crops. So impetuously potent is the grain, this summer, that demands for agricultural laborers have reduced the number of Italians unemployed from 447,021 last January to 429,211 last month...
...Weston spent a rainy night under another roof, the nurse a "beautiful, marvelous" one under the Westons' with the doctor. Six years later Nurse Katy returned to make her child an honest son. Kind words, a tear, a plea softened her wrath, ended the play, dismissed a summer audience. V;ola Frayne as Nurse Katy, Richard Gordon as Dr. Weston, demonstrated degrees of drunkenness in sympathetic fashion. On the whole, however, a play ineffectual, an evening ill-spent...
...suspended for the present. Before his election to the Papacy he was a doughty mountain climber. Age, not immuration, is responsible for his present frailty. Next May His Holiness will be 72 years old. U. S. Numbers. To the Vatican, whose thick old walls fraction the blaze of Italian summer into cool nooks for the serene observation of world happenings, went the news last week that in ten years the U. S. Catholic population had increased by virtually 20%. In 1916 the numbers had been 15,721,815; in 1926 they had been 18,604,850. These were finally authenticated...
...form and became its president. France, Belgium, Great Britain, Canada, the U. S. and other countries built houses there for students. What was needed was a central administration building. Last fortnight, John Davison Rockefeller Jr. contributed $2,000,000 for that purpose. He had looked into University City last summer and Senator d'Honnorat had come to the U. S. last winter to study university methods...