In two weeks it’ll be the longest day in the year.

I always watch for the longest day in the year and then miss it.

Do you always watch for the longest day of the year and then miss it?

In his last year at Princeton he read too much and took to wearing spectacles.

Father agreed to finance me for a year, and after various delays I came East, permanently, I thought, in the spring of twenty-two.

They had spent a year in France for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together.

I was rather literary in college⁠—one year I wrote a series of very solemn and obvious editorials for the Yale News⁠—and now I was going to bring back all such things into my life and become again that most limited of all specialists, the “well-rounded man.”