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  • The result is a solid and satisfying summer-resort musical, just the kind of show that will delight the kids and their parents after a long, hard day on the beach.

    Small Boat, Big Show Terry Teachout 2011

  • Twenty years ago American teens scrambled for any kind of summer-resort job.

    A Summer Place 2008

  • He loitered down to the station; he studied the summer-resort posters, lest he have to speak to acquaintances and expose his uneasiness.

    Babbit 2004

  • Note the famous conflict of definitions in the situation between summer tourists, who would like to extend summer-resort informality to the stores in the local town, and the natives, who would like to preserve proper business decorum in such places.

    Behavior in Public Places ERVING GOFFMAN 1963

  • This piece of land was not different from the prairie it had always been, except that the houses which faced it on all sides, as if it were a lake of the summer-resort variety, gave it an importance which was not its own.

    The Wrong Woman Charles D. Stewart

  • All of which is quite in keeping with summer-resort existence, and you are as proud as Lucifer when you trail back to town to show this cerise-tinted evidence of your outing.

    The Woman Beautiful or, The Art of Beauty Culture Helen Follett Stevans

  • Twin Lakes is a summer-resort town located on the lower of two bodies of water, similar in size, configuration, and scenery.

    Campfire Girls at Twin Lakes The Quest of a Summer Vacation Stella M. Francis

  • She was rather ultra-stylishly clad for a negligee, summer-resort community, wearing a pleated taffeta skirt and Georgette crepe waist and

    Campfire Girls at Twin Lakes The Quest of a Summer Vacation Stella M. Francis

  • In a summer-resort where he found himself, there was a girl of not very gentle breeding, somewhat pudgy and with a languishing air.

    Love's Pilgrimage Upton Sinclair 1923

  • He loitered down to the station; he studied the summer-resort posters, lest he have to speak to acquaintances and expose his uneasiness.

    Babbitt 1922

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