Word: holidayers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nabbed Lucien Barrière, president of the gambling casinos in Cannes and Deauville, as he traveled to Switzerland by train with $634,000 in diamonds and other gems in his luggage. The baubles, Barrière explained, were just something for his wife to wear on a skiing holiday in Gstaad...
...hours long. The extension was due to Governor Michael Dukakis, who realized that the recent blizzard had left ardent suitors trapped in several feet of snow. Worse, merchants estimated that they would lose $10 million worth of sales of candy, flowers and greeting cards. So Dukakis extended the Tuesday holiday to Friday, for "spiritual as well as economic reasons." To fulfill the spirit of the thing, he sent Valentine messages to his wife Kitty all week long...
...force people to stay home, Dukakis declared a three-day bank holiday...
...first, for the fortunate majority, last week's storm could be taken in good spirits and looked on as a welcome holiday. Cross-country skiers glided through city streets. Fraternity men tossed snowballs at sorority women on Boston's Commonwealth Avenue. Crowds applauded the impromptu performances of jugglers and clowns on Boston Common. At Boston Garden, some 11,000 fans showed up during the storm for college hockey playoffs. Many fans could not get home afterward and, sustained by free coffee and hot dogs, bunked down on the wooden seats...
...every holiday belongs a certain genre of literature, designed to express a certain sentiment to those we love, or to those institutions we are afraid to lay as under...