Word: summered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dozen rosaries so as to have them blessed for his Irish constituents at home. Later Sol bent all his talents for several years to directing George Washington's Bicentennial celebration, and succeeded so well in indoctrinating the U. S. with patriotism that his wife Evelyn spent a whole summer with him in sweltering Washington because, as she explained: "If Martha Washington could stick it out here with General Washington, I could stick it out here with...
Twenty-six years ago Louis Eckstein, rich Chicago merchant and real-estate operator, began sponsoring summer music in Ravinia Park, 37 acres of woodland which he owned on Chicago's North Shore. Depression interrupted the concerts in 1932 and Patron Eckstein died in 1935 before they were resumed. When his widow agreed to let Ravinia be used for summer music again, 25 businessmen raised $30,000 and reopened Ravinia last summer (TIME, July 13). Back to Chicago last week went Lucrezia Bori, Leon Rothier and Mario Chamlee (Archer Ragland Cholmondeley) who had helped make Ravinia opera nationally known...
...summer sun beat down into Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium last week upon a towheaded young woman who, whirling to the strains of a sweating, shirtsleeved orchestra, sang and danced passionately around a plaster head on a property platter until her feet hurt and print dress was damp and dusty. She was Erica Darbo, the Scandinavian soprano whose U. S. debut set Cincinnati agog last February in Strauss' Salome, rehearsing for her first New York appearance. The night of the performance, in costume and against a background of stars and sultry violet, Miss Darbo gained full credit...
...salt water blood-worms sting like bees. Then somebody discovered that when properly packed the worms would stay alive for two days, could be shipped to fishermen in other States. In the last five or six years Maine's worm business has grown by leaps & bounds until this summer it has a turnover of 2,500,000 worms a month...
...stings, and the fringed sandworm, which pinches. Average length is from six to eight inches, but full-grown sandworms are sometimes a foot long. As bait for flounders, weakfish and porgies they have no peers, the sandworm being especially alluring in spring and autumn, the blood worm in deep summer. Few years ago when salt water worms were rare, fishermen in Long Island Sound were willing to pay as much as 75? a dozen for them. Standard price in this year's well-organized market...