Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attractive and a valuable feature of the Plan. Such activities and groups include formal dances, generally twice annually; tea dances, costume dances, -- shipwreck dances and poverty balls; House dinners on such occasions as Christmas and President Lowell's birthday, with skits following; plays, such as "The Shoemaker's Holiday," produced by the student and tutor members of the Eliot Elizabethan Club; economic societies; "Coffee Pot" discussion groups; musical societies; singing groups; and other discussion groups. For the most part these activities, which have arisen generally from the initiative of students, sometimes from that of tutors, have been very successful. Such...
...Eliot House's existence, its Head Tutor was Professor Matthiessen. In those years he was equally famous for his good China tea, his cat Pretzel, and the part of the Dutch skipper in the House play, which he played quite without fault (Cf. Dekker's "The Shoemaker's Holiday," Mermaid edition). Cats are great favorites with him; he has been known to spend five or ten minutes at a stretch gazing into the eyes of his tabby while it sits in his lap. Just love, apparently. Crayon-drawings of past cats in his life stood about the Head Tutor...
Last week 240 union delegates met at Pricedale. It was a rowdy meeting from which six men were ejected before it voted a "holiday" for 30,000 workers. Outside Hungarian Hall thousands of United Miners cheered the decision to defy their national leader and follow Insurgent Ryan...
...Fifth Avenue street lights, turned amber for the holiday, winked on as darkness fell. The crowds grew thicker. The ticker-tape and torn paper banked in heaps against the curbs. Governor Lehman went off to make a speech. The other reviewers ordered sandwiches and coffee. By this time the parade should have ended, but thousands were yet to come. George Gordon Battle led the lawyers. Life insurance people, office furniture brokers, telegraph and telephone employes with linemen in truck towers followed. The brewers marched past diabolically illuminated by red flares...
...Boston Common, Mayor Curley administered an oath to school children: "I promise as a good American citizen to do my part for the NRA. I will buy where the Blue Eagle flies." At Ossining, N. Y., Sing Sing inmates got a holiday when 100 of their guards marched in the local demonstration. The Tulsa parade was led by Mrs. Samuel L. Johnson, General Johnson's 77-year-old mother, who had addressed a NRA rally night before. Said she: "People had better obey the NRA because my son will enforce it like lightning, and you can never tell when...