Word: summering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first time in several years I was able to satisfactorily keep in touch with current news while spending the summer in a very tiny village of the Italian Alps. Perhaps it would interest you to know how 1 provided for having TIME forwarded to me without having to bother you with my change of address. At the postoffice I had a copy of TIME weighed and bought the necessary folders on which I wrote my Italian address. These folders I left with the caretaker and each week he wrapped TIME in one and placed it again in the mail...
...Yale arena will be called the Walker memorial rink after H. Z. Walker, the alumnus who started its construction last summer. Since his death, the work has been carried on by Padoloff and Sons, a New Haven real estate concern...
...special prologue for "The Patriarch" has been written by Lee Wilson Dodd, and during the summer the play itself was revised slightly according to suggestions made by the viewing committee at the trial performance. The success of Professor Baker's management at Yale will assure a capable company for the play. It has been called a difficult drama for amateur actors and the presentation will tax the skill of the Yale Thespians...
...June, 1864, Maximilian arrived at Mexico City. From the first he was unpopular, with the clerics because he was too liberal, and with the populace, because he was a foreigner. The European troops which supported him were detested by the natives. In the summer of 1886 Napoleon III decided to withdraw his forces. Maximilian was being deserted by the man who had brought him to his position and was using him as a pawn. His wife appealed to the emperor of the French to save her husband; he refused. She went, then, on an appeal to the Pope, but here...
Roots has just returned to Cambridge from his home in Hankow, China, in order to attend the Episcopal Theological School. He is a former CRIMSON editor and has been connected with instruction work in Chinese schools during the past year. He spent the last summer, in Peking and Canton, the respective centers of the warring factions and returned through Soviet Russia to this country...