Word: summering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Frank W. Stearns, the selectmen of Swampscott greeted the party. Mrs. Stearns, who recently suffered a breakdown on her return from a trip abroad, appeared waving a white shawl to Mrs. Coolidge. Then all went in to breakfast. Afterwards Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge crossed into the grounds of their summer residence next door, by way of the formal garden...
...President and Mrs. Coolidge departed for the Summer White House at Swampscott, Mass...
Oxford was "down." The summer vacation had begun. "Schools" (exams) were over. Yet Oxford, last week, was crowded with formidable dowagers, jovial "guvnors," dainty débutantes in the joiliest of raiment and under the absurdest of parasols, all being escorted by be-flanneled undergraduates. "Commem" (Commemoration) Week had started seven days of endless pleasure. Up the "High," down the "Broad," along the "Corn" strolled British society. Every available lodging was taken. No money could buy or hire a punt, for they were already thick upon the water of the Isis...
...after the "House" ball, perchance a Magdalen ball, a "Quaggers" ball and many other balls, at which the most sumptuous refreshments are served in an atmosphere unostentatiously aristocratic, Oxford will run its eyes, yawn and fall fast asleep for the summer...
...unprecedented, at the rate-of 27,030,000 gallons a day, thus surpassing the previous record month of August, 1924, when consumption reached 26,700,000 gallons daily. Some authorities expect to see a daily consumption rate of 29,000,000 gallons set for May, 1925; and, when this summer's season is really reached, a consumption of over a billion gallons a month. If this transpires, stocks in this country would amount to only a little more than a month and a half's supply...