Word: vacationers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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¶ One fine morning the Presidential yacht, Mayflower, put to sea without her master or mistress aboard. Instead there were Edward T. Clark, the President's private secretary; Ellen Peck, secretary to Mr. Clark; Mrs. Clark; E. W. Smithers, the White House telegraphist; Pat McKenna, Cerberus of the White...
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...
This is what Secretary of State Kellogg did last week. Ambassador Sheffield, accredited to the Calles Government at Mexico City, returned to Washington "just for a vacation." He had two long conferences with the Secretary of State. He had another conference with the President, Senator Borah, Senator Smoot and Attorney...
Bringing its spring term to a close and entering upon its long summer vacation, the U. S. Supreme Court rendered a number of important decisions :
Charles E. Hughes, returned from vacation in Bermuda, was made an honorary member of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society,? and said: "It is extraordinary what privileges await one who has had the good fortune to hold office and survive it."