Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before Christmas Eve the President gave a holiday to his clerical staff. To each clerk and stenographer he presented a book, with his autograph on the flyleaf. Next day he entertained, first, the families of his chauffeurs and mechanics, then the families of the White House domestic staff. All children under 15 received their gifts from the President himself. That night, true to family tradition, he read A Christmas Carol aloud to kith & kin. Just before he put out the light to go to sleep he saw nine socks and stockings hanging over his big bedroom fireplace...
...Neither St. Paul's School nor Yale's Freshmen: the opening of the annual holiday intercollegiate and interscholastic hockey series in Manhattan, in a hard-fought game which St. Paul's tied 2-to-2 in the third period after a dash almost the length of the rink and a quick pass...
...Stet is only 33. but as be fits a man who has already had a full career, he is practically white-haired. In 1926 he married Virginia Wallace, a Vir ginia girl. They have three children: Edward Jr., aged 3, and twin sons born last March during the banking holiday. From his spacious Manhattan apartment on Fifth Avenue he has a good view of the Metropolitan Museum and a fine vista of a successful career. Last week General Johnson genially patted him on the back: "His place in NRA will be hard to fill, but we can hardly stand...
...Commons to ask for sanction for wide-sweeping changes in the economic structure of this country." This was followed by similar remarks by other ministers, and it is held generally that these are intended to feel out public reaction and also to prepare for definite proposals after the holiday season...
Also featured will be a critical article, "Anabasis of A. MacLeish," by H. M. Wade. There will be a new dramatic column criticizing holiday plays in New York, in addition to the usual book reviews, and the Hodge Podge strip...