Word: summering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...field behind the barn on the farm belonging to Dry Crusader William Eugene ("pussyfoot") Johnson near Smithville Flats, N. Y. So thought some shrewd person. Last week, in the clump of trees in the field behind the barn of Crusader Johnson-who visits his farm only in the summer-State troopers found vats, stoves, coils and 14 copper boilers to contain 200 gallons...
...quoted, to be sure, from Rheingold but he quoted deliberately, when it suited him to have Wagner pop out of the back-ground of his libretto as the great forerunner of himself?the great Strauss. The story, as it was played, followed an old Dutch legend of a mid-summer festival with bonfires & a burgomaster's daughter & a bookish boy too long boxed up. Philadelphia critics, as well as critics who had taken the pilgrimage from other cities, regretted that there was no consistent loveliness in the score, that Soprano Helen Stanley & Baritone Marcel Salzinger had had to sing alternate...
...Last summer Mr. & Mrs. John Davison Rockefeller Jr. took three of their sons for a trip in Europe. One of the boys looked after all the funds; another looked after the baggage; the third ran errands. Each week each received a salary for his duties. Thus Mr. & Mrs. Rockefeller taught their sons integrity & responsibility, to pay for what they received, to receive what they paid...
...that of the White Star Line's Laurentic, from Liverpool to Manhattan. She is 604 feet long and was built less for speed than for cruising comfort. Except for two winter trips between Manhattan and Liverpool, she will be in regular service between Canadian ports and Liverpool in summer and in cruise service during the winter. Aboard when she docked at Manhattan was W. J. Willett Bruce, who directed her building. Explaining her length, short compared to that of the Leviathan, Majestic or Paris, he said that thousand-foot steamships are useful mainly for advertising purposes. He considers that...
...trip unique in the history of the department of Geology, approximately 15 students from the University will have an opportunity to accompany Professor K. F. Mather on a research trip to Europe next summer, it was announced yesterday by the department. This trip, of 12 weeks' duration, will take students to most of the interesting geological points of Europe. Replacing the annual expedition to mountains of America, it will count as a full course for all students in the University participating. The party, consisting of men and women from Mount Holyoke, Northwestern, Oberlin, Clark, and M. I. T. will hear...