Word: summering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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White Court, Summer White House, lies on a six and a half acre "estate," with 400 feet of frontage on the bay. It is a great colonial pile, about 20 years old, built by the late Frederick E. Smith of Dayton, and now owned by his children. It numbers 28 rooms, including eleven master bedrooms, a huge reception room, a dining room, sun-parlor, music room and six servants' bedrooms. Across the entire rear of the house, facing the bay, are porches. A lawn slopes down to the water. The view includes Egg Rock, recently converted by the Massachusetts legislature...
...politely suggested that Senator Butler (and Governor Fuller) also be invited?an effort to get Senator Butler into favor with the followers of the late Senator Lodge, who did not like the manner in which the Butler machine ran rough shod over Mr. Lodge at the Republican Convention last summer. Mr. Butler will have a real struggle to retain his seat because of the Lodge group and because of the strength of his Democratic opponent, David I. Walsh. Frederick H. Gillett beat Mr. Walsh last fall by only 25,000 votes although President Coolidge had a 400,000 vote margin...
...attempt was begun in the Reichstag to rush through outstanding business before the summer recess, which begins on July...
...destroyer Putnam was despatched to Sydney with the missing sets, MacMillan assured the Navy Department they would be installed. Soon after the expedition was steaming for Battle Harbor, Labrador, with it going Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell, physician-missionary to the Eskimos, returning to his Battle Harbor Mission for the summer...
...Manhattan, the Rev. Dr. Arthur B. Churchman, invalid preacher, who speaks from a wheel chair at the Bethany Memorial Reformed Church, distributed glasses of chilled water to his congregation, announced that this practice would be continued throughout the summer Sabbaths, during the hymns. Growing plants in pots will be placed at the end of each pew, that those who cannot drain their tumblers may have a place to deposit the residue. "There'll be no dry sermons here !" cried the Rev. Mr. Churchman...