Word: summered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vacation plans are emerging from the bull-session stage into definite arrangements, opportunities for summer jobs are pouring into Phillips Brooks House, it was announced yesterday by Ray Dennett '36, graduate secretary...
...several years U. S. card experts have experimented with five-suit games. One such, devised last summer by A. A. Jordan of Virginia Beach, Va., has a crown-emblem fifth suit...
John Marin is now 67 years old, a wry, shy, wrinkled little man with a long, sharp nose and grey hair in tousled bangs over his forehead. In winter he lives in Cliffside, N. J., and in summer he goes to Stonington, Me. He has not been out of this annual orbit since his two years in Taos, N. Mex. in 1929-30, a period when he says the brilliance of light in the desert made him "continually dippy." Painters like Tintoretto, Rembrandt and Goya he usually refers to as "those old boys." Last week his first visit to Manhattan...
...each mouthful of vegetarian fodder 32 times. Editor of Good Health, author of Plain Facts (sex education via pictures of plant life), he is the inventor of flaked cereals manufactured by his brother, W. K. Kellogg. Dr. Kellogg once dictated (indoors) for 20 hours straight, dressed only in his summer underwear. Last week he celebrated his 86th birthday by stripping to a loin cloth, dictating (outdoors) to a secretary, having his picture taken...
What makes an adventurer? Though hundreds of adventurers have lived to tell the tale, few have attempted an answer to the question. In Danger Is My Business, Captain John D. Craig, Hollywood's best-known deep-sea photographer, who will photograph the salvage work on the Lusitania this summer, starts his autobiography by pondering himself and his kind. An adventurer's courage, says Craig, "is simply something that keeps logic from working ... it is something-like blue eyes or red hair or six fingers-which some men have and others do not. . . ." Despite this analytical beginning, Danger...