Word: summering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...privilege" last summer of my brother and myself while sojourning in Yellowstone National Park (waiting for a motorcycle repair part) to spend a night in the horse stable of Old Faithful Camp. Not accustomed to such lodging (though the hay was comfortable enough) we slept little, and had a good opportunity to observe the nocturnal habits of the six horses tied to the opposite side of the manger. For the first hour or two they munched noisily on hay. Tiring of this, they would bite each other on the neck in a friendly way, or would spray us violently through...
Despite the storm, the grounds around the Executive Mansion were just as full as on that mid-summer night of nomination...
Skeptics gaped at reports that in the fructiferous Milk River Valley of Alberta several persons bought farms, last autumn, which they have now paid for out of the proceeds of one summer's crops. Farmer S. I. Harris, shrewd, bought a Milk River quarter section for $15 per acre, raised 10,000 bushels of wheat, and with the proceeds more than paid for his land. Farmers Loft & Pederson slightly bettered even this phenomenal procedure, but other Milk Riverites were perceptibly less fortunate...
...Lawn Tennis Association and extended last week by the International Lawn Tennis Federation, he could still play as an amateur in Russia or in Abyssinia. In the 35 principal tennis-playing countries of the world, including Cuba, Japan and Monaco, he will be considered a professional, because last summer he wrote reports of British tournaments for U. S. news-sheets...
...John Roach Straton, pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church of Manhattan, purchased, last June, a hotel at Greenwood Lake, N. Y., which he planned to use as the base of a summer Bible camp. Last week, the hotel burned to the ground. Dr. Straton and his wife, who were spending a few days at their summer home at the other end of Greenwood Lake, rushed to the hotel in time to hear the final crackles of the fire. Like Senator Heflin of Alabama, Dr. Straton smelled a plot by his enemies...