Word: furloughing
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...Ambassador was about to sail for a furlough in the U. S. Cambridge University had just made him an honorary Doctor of Laws and in the distinguished audience sat prim John Galsworthy, elfin Sir James Matthew Barrie, beefy Lords Beauchamp and Bridgeman, and His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, "Uncle Arthur" Henderson? honorary degree...
Popular Poet-Ambassador Paul Claudel, in Paris last week on a furlough from his Washington post, had with him his Packard...
...over, and unmarried. It is understood that the first term is for three years, during which time a man does not marry and goes to such parts of the Orient as may be determined by the Company. At the end of three years he has an extended furlough, is permitted to visit the United States, and in many cases men on such furloughs cease to be bachelors...
...furlough," and "Rein-hart...
...bursting of the cocoon when he enters Third Class and the dignity of a yearling; the indiscriminate dubbing of plebes as Mr. Ducrot, from a scandal whispered in Keetel's French Grammar; the two months' practical camp training during July and August, accompanied by a cry of "Yea, furlough!", with results curiously like those of the Cambridge "Rein-har", though doubtless of different origin...