Word: summering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Washington will talk about the President and Mrs. Coolidge. Rumors run rife that the President and the First Lady are estranged since he acted so badly to her before the newspapermen on several occasions while in the West last summer...
...report which it accepted in a unanimous rising vote of findings on the Christian message in relation to non-Christian systems. This report, which had been awaited with some anxiety before the conference opened, in part reiterates the findings of the Lausanne Conference on Faith and Order, held last summer. It declares that the messages of Christianity should be proclaimed against the background of a world-situation which includes...
From there the story went on through the afternoons of a long-ago summer. From time to time it included poems such as the one which was sung by the Mock Turtle, slowly and sadly...
...name. Other and lighter works, such as he often composed, he signed, with a Latin transliteration of his first two names, Lewis Carroll. Alice Liddell and her two sisters were allowed to run across the Great Quadrangle to call on their father's friend. Sometimes, on the summer afternoons, he would take them rowing...
...When the summer was over, Mr. Dodgson wrote down his story and gave it to Alice Liddell for a Christmas present. It was called Alice's Adventures Underground; there were about 40 pictures in it and a tremendous number of conversations. The meticulous manuscript which Mr. Dodgson gave to Alice was read by some of his friends as well as, doubtless, by hers. Eventually, he was persuaded to write out his story again for a publisher to print. This version was not exactly like the first one; it was called Alice in Wonderland, and it contained a great many...