Word: chautauqua
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...hour by train from Buffalo, a promontory, fair in Summer, cuts the waters of Lake Chautauqua. It is a piece of land almost totally covered with cottages and tents...
John Henry MacCracken, president of Vassar, spoke at Chautauqua: " One of the greatest tragedies of the world is the growing wrath against the Jews in European Universities. I pray God it may not extend to our American universities...
Woodrow Wilson's life, according to Washington correspondents, has of late consisted largely of refusing offers to lecture for Chautauqua. One Chautauqua manager declared that the ex-President would be the greatest attraction in the country? could name his own price. But Mr. Wilson is obdurate...
Senator Pat Harrison, of the virulent tongue, able Democratic whip from Mississippi, is getting $100 a speech on the Chautauqua circuit. His opponents comment: " At last he has found a market for his wares...
...time cruising or maintaining social relations at some isolated post!" A Zero Mile Stone was erected south of the White House. It marks the beginnings of the Lee and Lincoln Highways as the golden stone in the Forum marked the beginning of the great system of Roman roads. The Chautauqua Circuit put on the road this summer the largest number of men ever to test political acoustics from its platforms. Following the trail blazed long ago by William Jennings Bryan will be: Senators Watson (Ind.), Harrison (Miss.), Willis (Ohio), Brookhart (Ia.), Lenroot, (Wis.); Representatives Dickinson (Ia.), Shreve (Pa.), Tincher...