Word: summering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...believed in getting away for a little while, if only for the sake of change in environment, that, if the Capitol were in the Adirondacks, he would leave just the same. News arrived, simultaneously with the President's announcement, that one Andrew Bishop, who lives near the Coolidge summer camp, had frozen his ears on a frosty night last week...
...June drew near and with it the hour at which Speaker Nicholas Longworth, Republican ringmaster, had decreed that the 69th Congress should fasten its portfolio flaps and go home for the summer. But the 69th Congress showed no intention whatever of obeying Mr. Longworth...
Twenty-four long hours, one long day; seven long days, one long week. The 23rd week of the strike in Passaic, N. J., opened with Albert Weisbord, of the Harvard Law School, bespectacled, frail dynamo of the textile workers, making preparations for an all summer battle: "We shall hold on like bulldogs, no matter what punishment they inflict upon us," he said...
Reorganization of the Executive Branch. Plans for rearranging Government functions within the Cabinet departments and, perhaps, creating new departments have been maturing for several years. But the subject is highly controversial and Congress did not want to spend a summer in Washington settling...
...They have been supplied with excellent music, a joyous slapstick, a succession of amazingly beautiful sets and costumes. George White asked $55 a seat for the first nine rows. No one demanded money back. The Grand Street Follies. The Neighborhood Playhouse buried in the slums emerges with its annual summer satire. This is the secluded organization that this season astonished and stirred the population with The Dybbuk. From this solemn business they have turned to trifles spun of song and dance...