Word: summering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Horniday) tells of a duck disappointed with prohibition, who retired to the desert. Selecting a suitable giant cactus, she shoved out the woodpecker tenants and moved in. It was cool and comfortable, had running water in every room. In this rustic solitude she spent her declining years. On summer evenings she might have been observed sitting by an open window, her bright green head thrust out in an attitude of expectancy, a sharp eye peeled for passing worms and unsuspecting bugs...
...stage headliner is Ted Lewis, assisted by his band. Fresh from a summer abroad, Lewis has more than his former dose of pomposity. But be that as it may, his music is A1. If you like a good slow beat, suddenly broken up by Tiger Rag or such. Ted Lewis is the man to give it to you. Emphasis on the brass has always been uppermost, both in the band and in Lewis' personality...
...Professor Einstein, frantic with the imminence of death from heart trouble, has been intensely working on two new theories corollary to relativity. One he has just submitted to the Berlin Academy of Science, for study. The other is yet unfinished. Last summer he spent at Lubeck, Baltic sea resort. Last week he was in Berlin, reasoning a few hours each day in a small, secluded room atop his apartment house. His malady has made him annoyingly nervous and querulous. In his wife's words, if someone suddenly disturbs him, he screams, shrieks and raves. Then he calms down...
...wore short pants and black ribbed stockings through his Freshman year. His ambition to be a coxswain was frustrated by his mother who would not permit a nonswimming son on the Harlem River. His hair is usually tousled, his eyes sleepy, and great is his aptitude for poker. Last summer he won a Ford in a poker game. The Ford, however, would not run. His interest in baseball is only casual...
...least of his considerable share of the labors was to foster his cordial relations with European and Asiatic diplomats, all of whom held him in high esteem and gladly gave him their confidence when they feared his austerer chief. "All roads lead ultimately to Magnolia" (House's summer place), said Northcliffe...