Word: summering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There have already been biographies and more biographies of Woodrow Wilson. Hardly had the War President died last February, when Josephus Daniels rushed down to his private domain in North Carolina to pen one. Last summer, William Allen White undertook another. But at last an official and authorized biography is to be produced. Mrs. Wilson has announced the undertaking...
During the Paris proceedings Mr. Kellogg, the principal American delegate, was not only Ambassador in London but designated Secretary of State. Without his qualities of genial shrewdness and reasonable tenacity, the Paris conference, like the London conference last Summer, could not have reached the complete success it achieved...
...committee which reported on the eclipse consisted of "a number of gentlemen in Boston, who had furnished themselves with proper instruments, and agreed to meet on the morning of the 16th at the house of Mr. Benjamin Bussey, in Summer Street, for the purpose of observing the eclipse...
...will provides that one undivided half of the buildings and real estate at 134-141 Summer street and 38 Broad street, and $30,000 in Liberty Bonds be given to the University to found three trusts. One of these will be called the Josiah P. Cooke Relief Fund and the income will be given to men who are assistant professors, or instructors at the University or men who have held these positions. The second of these funds is to be known as the Josiah Parsons Cooke Mineralogical Fund in memory of her brother J. P. Cooke, former professor of chemistry...
...power over words themselves gives to a poem. He depends rather upon the delights of image and music than upon the more distinctly literary delights of diction. Just this quality of exciting power in phrase is strong in "Romantic Melancholy" by J. A. Abbott. "Angled twigs, skeletons of the summer, the gust surges through the trees in floods, the smother grief, and smother hope lest disappointment grieve, the range of hissing sea foam as its creamy lines slide down the sand"--almost every phrase is in itself alive with a sort of electric thrill. "Sharon" by Stuart Ayers is pleasantly...