Word: summering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Some of the Black Hills of South Dakota are no hills. Harney Peak, is the loftiest mountain in these hills. It is perched up on this peak that Senators Norbeck and McMaster of South Dakota want President Coolidge to spend his 1927 summer vacation. There the state maintains a large residential lodge which it would be pleased to have the President occupy...
During the languid summer months there was a lull in their interchange, which was taken by the press to mean that Mexico City had persuaded Washington that the laws were not so very retroactive and confiscatory...
...last time I saw Aubrey Beardsley," wrote a critic, "was in the summer of 1896 ... he was then seriously ill, indeed not expected to live, but he was in high spirits. . . . Although it was a day of brilliant sunshine, the curtains were drawn, and the room lighted by many tall candles. Aubrey Beardsley, clad in a yellow dressing gown, and wearing red slippers turned up at the toes, was working. As I entered he waved, laughed his gay laugh, then coughed horribly...
That same summer of 1911 he learned that the American Medical Association was to meet at Los Angeles. So from Langenschwalbach he ordered a Kolossal barbecue prepared. There was so much meat roasting in the pits that cooks had to dig it up with pitchforks and spades...
...most desirable place in the Yard for a dining hall. It is easy of access from the Square, from the Yard and from the Massachusetts Avenue district. It is the heart of the Cambridge area occupied by Harvard. The property will be available for construction work during the coming summer...