Word: holiday
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt had given the wishes of "merchants" as his reason for making the change, to give them a holiday nearer Labor Day, farther from Christmas. Mrs. Roosevelt reported: "I got a most amusing letter attributing this change to a desire to help a certain race in this country, which is credited, in this note, with doing most of the 'trading' and which, they say, is not interested in American traditions. . . . But . . . how about remembering how the Yankees always were good traders and perhaps some of them still are in the business...
...this week, Serge Bogousslavsky, guarded by two lawyers, marched into a police station, unwrapped newspapers from a bundle under his arm, surrendered the painting. Officials pronounced it the original but awaited the return of experts from their Assumption Day holiday for a final opinion...
Less whimsical, but equally sticktuitive are his present clients, who will keep him busy till November. Courier Wagner will then be free to join his wife in London, whence they will repair to Switzerland on their annual winter holiday...
...high holiday humor, this bright, fast, pert reporting rollicks along almost as if there were no war in China. Messrs. Auden & Isherwood are right in their element describing such Alice in Wonderland scenes from topsy-turvy Chinese life as two old men gravely trying to put a rat in a bottle, a woman tirelessly pouring water through a sieve. More startling than anything they report about the East is what they report, often unconsciously, about themselves. Their own honest verdict on Au Dung and Y Hsiao Wu: ". . . though we wear out our shoes walking the slums, though we take notes...
...Kiplingesque empire builder is Englishman Clement Egerton. With anthropology as his excuse, he went to the French Cameroons not to help bear the white man's burden but as a holiday from civilization. His native interpreter had previously worked for a professional scientist, who used a tape measure on everything from a native king's wives to his pots & pans. In African Majesty Amateur Egerton uses no such tape measure, but seldom fails to be readable...