Word: summering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Parliament reassembled at Teheran after the summer recess. Promptly members broke into fist fighting and riots. The trouble started when a member of the minority party was offered the post of Minister of Justice...
...Naturalist of the expedition, Dr. Walter N. Koelz, radioed his first report to the National Geographical Society. Gray jellyfish, he told about; snails with wings; a fish like the bullhead, with ventral suckers for attaching itself to rocks while feeding; rare arctic birds in little-known summer plumage; land plants which eschew stems to snuggle next the ground and escape the wind; sea kelp, whose writhing shapes even Eskimos often mistook for animal life; carpets of wildflowers, luxuriant timothy, gaudy mosaics of lichen, orange and purple, on the black rock cliffs; the maniacal laughter of sky-filling clouds of dovekies...
...Colonel George Harvey, onetime outspoken ambassador to the Court of St. James's, was a weekend guest at White Court. An habitual flouter of customs, the Colonel was the first guest this summer who has preferred the sun and beach to attending church with the President. He smiled his excuses, said he had some letters to write...
...late summer dusk stooped to enfold the arid campus of New York university, Manhattan, one evening last week, a band struck up. The slow movement of the brasses and drums and the grandiose melancholy of the horns contributed a poetic languor to the cool beginning of the evening. But no languor possessed the many listeners. They whispered to each other, took excited notes, whistled snatches of tune. They were playing a game...
...winner of affections, an unselfish devotee of the causes he embraces. Chicago, anxious for a glimpse of the man who is to carry on the work begun by William R. Harper,t welcomed Dr. Mason stopping off vacation bound for a glance at the scene of his new dictatorship. Summer students (who recognized him from his press syndicated photographs) found it easy to believe that for all his scholastic honors he was voted the most popular professor at Wisconsin...