Word: summering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week of visiting around in South Dakota for the President, but there were, as well, several visitors at the summer White House. General John Joseph Pershing called on the way home from visiting his father-in-law., Senator Francis E. Warren, of Wyoming, and reported the condition of U. S. cemeteries abroad, discussed disarmament. Mr. & Mrs. Michael Gallagher, Cleveland friends of the Coolidges, dropped in on a motor tour and the President told them he was sorry the flooded, muddy condition of "the location I use" in Grace Coolidge Creek prevented him from returning their turkey of last Thanksgiving with...
...rest of mankind is clopping through life with one foot in a mud bog. George Kelly, who is perhaps the most deadly propagandist among U. S. playwrights, provided sketches which, artfully unclimactic, bore the audience into fierce exasperation by faithfully recording the yapping on the veranda of a summer hotel, a golf course, a theatrical dressing-room. These are food enough for entertainment. For the nut course, there are clowns...
...Biblical tamarisk manna is not to be confused with the manna of the manna ash tree (Fraxinns ornus) cultivated commercially on the frassinetti (plantations) around Palermo, Sicily. The manna ash are the trees visitors in Palermo in early summer see blooming with clusters of whitest flowers...
...played mostly in the country. Urchins borrow pitching gloves worn by their fathers through a career on the highschool nine, gather in a meadow, "measure a bat" for first up, compete through long summer mornings with protesting squeals and squawks that stir the catbirds to caustic music...
...suggested by a statement issued last week by Edsel B. Ford (president of the Ford Motor Co.), the first official announcement in many weeks of rumor. He spoke of the car as "an accomplished fact" and reported the results of the country road test, made one warm summer day over hill and plain, curve and stretch, the car had run: 27 miles the first half-hour. 56.1 miles the first hour. 110 miles in two hours...