Word: summering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...department of public speaking, he produced a number of amateur plays in and about Boston, later himself going on the stage and filling among other important positions that of stage manager in the exciting production of Eugene O'Neill's play, "The Great God Brown." During the past summer as one of the three American representatives at the conference of dramatic critics at Salzburk Professor Packard was able to associate intimately with Max Reinhardt, Ferenc Molnar and many others among the leading producers and playwrights of the European stage. With this immense and varied background he will be in such...
...Thus the thoughts of the docile, unoffensive people of China were not lightened by holiday fripperies, last week, but they were darkened and depressed by a grim certainty: it is at this season that Chinese leaders sow the seeds of those many civil wars which burst throughout China each summer as surely as snapdragons...
...Lone Eagle. The transoceanic flights of last summer have been covered by a multitude of cinemas. The Lone Eagle is one of the more petty. It describes the aeronautical antics of an aviator in the late war who. disproves a rumor of cowardice by winning a desperate air duel and a French girl. Film directors are fast learning how to make fainthearted habitues of the cinema grow dizzy at the sensation of being high up in the air. In this, The Lone Eagle is successful. The Lovelorn. On the staff of al most all important U. S. news-sheets there...
...follow it with a volume about a trip to Russia?for which "I would hail a New World," was a sort of preface. This second volume she did not accomplish. When she had finished My Life, in the spring of 1927, she prepared to spend the remainder of the summer at her Riviera villa. This lady who had danced a thousand times with a veil waving in her hands like a bright tenuous flag, and who had wrapped life closely about her like a brilliant shawl, one summer day tied a red scarf around her throat and stepped into...
...duchess is the slow bulging hub of a wheel whose whirling spokes are a glitter of medieval cities and country castles, deaths and tournaments and plagues. Jews who lent money and princes who rode through summer dusts or winter snows, bishops who begat bastards, kings who kept mistresses and died of wounds; all the remote and entangled brightness of a century, like all past