Word: summering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...summer of 1926 may come to be chronicled in histories as the beginning of an era when the U. S. actually leapt into the air, stayed there. No more sporadic gestures like the Shenandoah, the Hawaiian flights, but real laws, appropriations, Cabinet officers, potent metal planes, transcontinental airways mark the summer. Auspicious events...
...Senator Francis Emroy Warren, 82, Chairman of the Appropriations Committee, last governor of Wyoming territory, first governor of Wyoming state, rancher, realtor, arose from his Cheyenne verandah, strode down the asphalt street. White-haired, senectissimus of all U. S. Senators, Mr. Warren had recently completed his annual summer report on appropriations (TIME, July 26). Mr. Warren had public respect, not only as a Senator, businessman - many had that - but as a substantial patron of the drama. Perhaps he recalled, as he passed the Masonic Temple, how 20 years past he had endeavored to bring Hamlet and The Second Mrs. Tanqueray...
...Lithuanians, just plain Russians, Italians; organized their strike. His United Front Committee has kept the strikers alive and united, built playgrounds for the children, stood firm on its terms of settlement in the face of numerous idealistic and dog-in-the-manger peace proposals, is prepared to fight all summer if necessary. The Citizens' Committee of Passaic would like to see Albert Weisford out of the way, so they bellow "Communist" at him. Communist though he may have been; he keeps silent about it. He is a clever organizer rather than a demagog, a cynic rather than a blithering...
...city of Mantua, famed citadel of sturdy Etruscans, the local Fascist Prefect issued a well-pondered order last week: "For the remainder of the present summer all males in the Province of Mantua are forbidden to dance in public. This order has been promulgated for hygiene and moral reasons...
...dastardly attack by the Ku Klux Klan ("a boy scout movement for children of 40 ... footpads and submorons, Sir!") which was repelled and its leader, the Rev. Pudley, captured in his white skirts. Nor before Ruth and young Kendrick, within a few hours of meeting, walked in a panic summer midnight to a mad prothalamium of crickets; lay together in cool damp grass and took counsel of a Debussy moon . . . "List, sweet Moon," Ruth said, "where I learned my loving . . ." Ruth was an amateur of the living moment; she could quote poetry, swear tenderly. The eventualities aboard their pirate-schooner...