Word: summering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...leading New York and Washington newspapers (not to speak of the Long Island papers) no mention was made in TIME of the engagement of Miss Thalia Fortescue to Ensign Thomas Massie? I do not know Miss Fortescue personally, but her family is among the most prominent of the summer residents of both Bayport and Sayville, while she herself is one of the leading members of the younger summer set of Long Island, and has an established position in both New York and Washington society. Major Granville Fortescue, her father, has a distinguished military record, was at one time aide...
...severe and matter-of-fact person, with his nephew Joseph. There was also Isaiah, an old grey horse and a wasp who lived in the attic and was the largest apple-owning wasp in the county. Down the valley, in Wayne, there lived Prissy Deakan who had, the summer before, put up no less than twelve dozen jars of jelly. She, Metabel felt, had an eye for Joseph; she would have liked to change him over and make a somebody...
...more business in life that making a tree fall neatly. He was cutting down ash again, to get money for a store dress for Metabel to be married in. The little god of good humor advised her to go back to Early; he showed her the road. "All summer long the valleys around Early are as green as the sea. But in the autumn they are like yellow pools; over them the clouds swim slowly in the sun, trailing their cold blue shadows across the hills...
...England, the three year course is the rule, while at Oxford, although the four year degree is more common, it is possible to take a degree in three years. At Harvard, although the work of four years may be completed in three years by taking extra courses and by summer study, the student must wait four years for his degree...
...Hello, would you please see if a photograph left by a Mr. -- just before the Summer holidays, has been repaired...