Word: summer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...squall struck Lake Couchiching near his summer home, capsizing a canoeist, Humorist Stephen Leacock set out to the rescue in his motor launch with Caretaker Jack Kelly & Mrs. Kelly. As the launch pulled away from the dock, Mrs. Kelly fainted. Dr. Leacock put back to the dock and Mrs. Kelly came to. Once more Dr. Leacock set forth to the rescue. Once more Mrs. Kelly swooned. After putting her ashore once & for all, Humorist Leacock reached the half-drowned canoeist hauled him aboard...
...Well, everybody, the fat is in the fry, politically, as I hereby formally announce my candidacy for Congress to succeed Marvin Jones. My latest information is that Marvin will resign this summer to accept a Federal judgeship. . . . And [his] successor will...
When the late Real-Estate Operator Louis Eckstein was its hovering angel, Ravinia Park, on the North Shore near Chicago, was one of the best spots in the U. S. for summer music. Sponsored now by a committee of Chicagoans, Ravinia is still good. Its opening week, fortnight ago, attracted the largest crowd in its history, more than 10,000 people. Last week, when bolt-upright, beaky, baldish Sir Adrian Boult, music director of British Broadcasting Corp., opened his second week with the Chicago Symphony, a heat wave melted the attendance. Those who braved the swelter heard, and lustily applauded...
...British noble, and for whose affections a British officer and an Indian chief vied. The Minute Men of 1774-5, was first of a series of nine America's Lost Plays which NBC is putting on (Thursdays, 9 p. m. E. D. S. T.) as "prestige programs" this summer, at a cost of from $1,000 to $2,000 a week...
...Every summer, around the Fourth of July, the interest of U. S. sport fans focuses on the British Isles where three of the oldest and most important sport events in the world are usually going full swing: the Henley Royal Regatta, the British Open golf tournament and the All-England tennis championships...