Word: summering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Many hundreds of thousands of persons, apparently, have suddenly conceived the notion of going to Florida this summer, buying some land on a shoestring, splitting it into lots during the fall, and selling at huge profits to a horde of grateful "investors" this winter. In Wall Street this is a familiar process, known technically as "accumulation" and "distribution". It works as long as the investors get real value for their money, and continues for a certain period there- after until the crop of hopeful lambs begins to thin out. Only these who own no Florida land and have no intensions...
...August has maintained this favorable showing. While crop production generally has fallen off, agricultural prices are up considerably, and rural prosperity in most parts of the country seems assured. Freight traffic in the railroads is both heavy and profitable. Lastly, retail sales have held up unusually well over the summer...
Last week the summer circus of traveling tennis players gave its show in Brookline, Mass. The event was the National Doubles Tournament at the Longwood Cricket Club...
...itself have caused alarm. But instead of the measured stride of the golfer, this youth employed a furious, irregular lope. Suddenly, without a waggle, in a pause that hardly broke his stride, his club described an invisible arc; several seconds afterward, pushing its path through the lucent walls of summer air, the sound of his spoon-shot reached the two old men. The youth, running as hard as he could, disappeared behind the hill; reemerged, a short time after, upon another; played one of his polo-like strokes-was off again. The two dotards looked at each other. Without...
...Esmeralda?that the orchestra played, apache dance of children's parties, to whose rhythm plump little girls have danced with skinny little boys through generations of summer afternoons while pink palms grew moist and socks crept slowly down to form a wad at the heels of minute dancing slippers? Not at all. The dance was the odious "Charleston," condemned by all dancing masters last year, now adopted in deference to popular taste, after vast modifications. No flourish of trumpets attends its innocent pattern. Dancing masters stand up straight; they do not lift their toes from the floor, or walked pigeontoed...