Word: weekends
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whites, and the typical crew, made up of a family and friends, cruises from job to job in dilapidated automobiles. They camp in the groves they are picking, put in a ten or eleven hour day, spend evenings singing and dancing, like a siesta at noon, a fiesta every weekend. Threshers, who climb and shake the trees, make from $4 to $6 a day. Gatherers, who pick the nuts up from the ground or off canvas spread under the tree, earn between $1.50 and $3 a day. This year growers will...
...weekend of the Dartmouth game approaches, an increasing interest is being shown in various pre and post game social activities. Perhaps one of the most popular of the events to be held at this time will be the Crimson-Green Ball which is being given for the benefit of the Boston Dispensary at the Hotel Somerset on Friday night...
...preparatory school was its Headmaster William McDonnell Pond. A blond, sturdy, fortyish Harvardman, until three years ago Headmaster Pond ran the Pond School in Cambridge, Mass, to tutor boys for Harvard. He and his wife Augusta May both liked to sail, used to take Pond pupils for weekend cruises aboard their small schooner, Gulmare, once asked a boatload of them if they would like to work aboard for a full week. They did, liked it so well that they asked their parents for enough money to sail down the Maine coast. When all returned a month later to pass their...
...Malvern" (Laymen's Weekend Retreat League) purchased a 106-acre estate for $60,000 from Philadelphia's rich Coxe family, now have a fulltime retreat master, Rev. Dr. James W. Gibbons, who conducts 45 sessions a year. President of the League is John J. Sullivan, austere heir to a traction fortune, vice president of Philadelphia's Market Street National Bank and professor of business law at the University of Pennsylvania. Malvern has a mailing list of 6,000 men who have made at least one retreat there. Total attendance last year was 4,132. The secular spadework...
...knowing what he was in past incarnations, Bean consults a seeress who tells him he was Napoleon Bonaparte. To live up to his astral personality, Bean buys a loud checked costume recommended in a magazine suspiciously resembling Esquire and defined as an "English shooting suit." He spends a weekend at the house of his boss (Robert McWade), swigs his liquor, spanks his daughter Mary (Louise Latimer...