Word: summering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...what was scheduled to be the last week-end cruise of the Mayflower before that yacht departs for the Summer White House at Swampscott, Mass., the guests aboard numbered General Pershing, General and Mrs. John A. Lejeune, Secretary of State and Mrs. Kellogg and Arthur Brisbane (Hearst editor...
Members of Parliament entered their respective Houses at Westminster. In the House of Lords, the Lord High Chancellor took his seat on the Woolsack. In the House of Commons, the Speaker took the chair. The summer session began...
...long winter. The balmy days of Spring were deceptive, for the nights were frosty and cold. But at last the burning sun promises to scorch everything in sight for three long months, mists of steam are rising from the rice fields, and the annual Summer war is on again in China...
Trelawney of the Wells. Each year when summer first catches a determined grip and the Theatre loses all but a few lingering popular diversions, the Players' Club gathers unto itself an extraordinary group of notables and has a revival. There is something about these ceremonies that causes true devotees of the Theatre to hesitate, possibly to worship a little. To see John Drew upon the stage playing a scene in classic comedy with Laurette Taylor; to meet Mrs. Thomas Whiffin, Amelia Bingham and Violet Heming in the same cast; to hear ovations and the curtain speeches-all these things...
...fiancee of the late Michael Collins, to General Felix Cronin, Irish soldier. Three former fiances, all soldiers, have met violent deaths. The first, a member of the Royal Irish Constabulary, was shot in her father's inn; the second and the third (the famed Collins) were shot during the summer of 1922 by Irish Republicans...