Word: summered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Irving B. Rosenberg '39, treasurer of the club, declared that cheap publicity was anathema to the secretive group. The whole concept, according to him, grew first as a joke when one boy was jilted, but increasing fatalities due to summer romances made the club a serious undertaking...
Dancing is forbidden, as is the company of women; only mothers and sisters are tolerated. "But the vows are in no way permanent," said Rosenberg, "they are just for the present." Frankly as an experiment, the members have considered forming a summer camp far from the influence of feminine foibles. "We have no motto, nothing as silly as that," went on Rosenberg, "and no vows of chastity...
...unnamed beach summer before last an unnamed hypogonadal (undersexed) man lay down in "an abbreviated bathing suit of peculiar cut." He lay there for seven broiling August afternoons and scarcely changed color...
...Greenwich or any other U. S. suburb. Equipped with his own hunches and reports from well-placed tipsters, Editor Williams made quite a local name for himself as a prognosticator in world politics. His major prediction was that Germany would precipitate a world war in the spring or summer of 1938 over the Czechoslovakia!! issue. A second prediction, the blunt assertion that "Germany will not march." appeared late in September when the Czechoslovakian crisis looked its blackest...
...Last summer death passed across television's little screen for the first time when NBC's Iconoscope camera accidentally focused on a girl's falling body, followed it six stories to the sidewalk in front of Manhattan's TIME & LIFE Building. Last week NBC's television mobile unit went to the bank of New York City's East River to televise a swimming pool. When the engineer saw fire break out in an abandoned U. S. Army barracks on Wards Island, he swung his camera around, caught and sent through the air television...