Word: summering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have lived in Bakersfield seven years; my husband for 15. We are agreed that no matter how free the years might make us to wander, Bakersfield shall be our permanent headquarters. Bakersfield does have high summer temperatures but so has every other spot in this big state not right at the sea coast. Los Angeles, we think, is ''dreadfully hot" in summer, because it is often sultry; Bakersfield has the dry clear air of its neighbor, the Mojave desert...
...residence sections, we spend long summer afternoons on green lawns beneath deep-shading palm, pepper, eucalyptus and umbrella trees, the fragrance of summer all about us, and love the tonic warmth as one never could the sticky, muggy afternoons of the middle west, where I grew up. We keep our houses closed and cool and dark, and open them to the almost unfailing night breeze. We go cool and peacefully to sleep-as one does not in July and August in Iowa-and long before morning we grope for blankets...
...Rosenberry 3L., retiring president, and W. B. Carman 2L, president-elect, will speak. The following will be guests at the dinner: Professor Zechariah Chafee '13, Professor Felix Frankfurter '06, Professor J. A. McGuire, Professor Austin W. Scott '09, Brooks Potter '24, president of the Society last year, and Summer Babcock '24, vice-president last year...
...Eugene O'Neill '15, in a number of plays including O'Neill's "The Great God Brown." Before going on the stage Professor Packard was an assistant in public speaking under I. L. Winter of Harvard. Last year he was director of dramatics at Dartmouth College, and during the summer of 1927 he was in Europe as one of the three American representatives at the conference of dramatic critics of Salzburg, Austria, observing the productions of Max Reinhardt in his famous "Festspielhaus...
Among Professor Hill's other compositions are "Nuns of the Perpetual Adoration. "The Wilderness Shall Rejoice" "Jack Fros in Mid Summer". Among his unpublished works for full orchestra which have been performed are "Pan and the Star the symphonic poem. "Laneclot and Gulnevere "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "Stevensoniana...