Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Frank was first a captain, later a major in the A. E. F. Now a resident of Caldwell, N. J. he commutes daily to Manhattan where he is office supervisor of the sales force of Pettit & Reed, wholesale produce merchants. A trout fisherman, he took a seven-month holiday in 1930 to camp and cast up and down the Pacific Coast. He is a hard-hitting Democratic campaigner, seeking his first public office in a strongly Republican district...
There are many things one longs to say to an indifferent Harvard. To the commonplace young man, the matter of fact young man, the study and stolid-y, week-end half-holiday, three A's and a B young man, the message...
...morning "pep meeting" his Vice President Henry Plude, Secretary-Treasurer William O'Neal, Controller Art Clark, Advertising Manager Fred Disterdick and student merchandising managers. The real Younkers' executives-Henry Frankels, Robert H. Duffy, Ross Dalbey, H. A. Metcalf, Karl Gerhardt et al- had fun too, taking a holiday and thinking up problems for the students to solve. Estimating that they had gained much goodwill to say nothing of increased sales, they planned another High School Day for next year...
...wining with his London friend Sir John Suckling, tutoring pretty young Julian Conybeare, the atheist doctor's daughter. Julian's father falls foul of the law when he tries to protect an old woman from the witch-finders; he and Julian and Parson Herrick take a tactical holiday to Cambridge, just then a political and poetical storm centre. There they meet Poets John Milton, supervising a performance of his masque, Comus, Andrew Marvell, Abraham Cowley, John Cleveland. Julian adores Cleveland, is happy when he condescends to make love to her. But the shadows fly fast: in a brawl...
...year. A large, well-sculptured statue of ice, generally of some revered son of Dartmouth, stands at a prominent spot on the campus. The fraternities also take great pains to brighten their thresholds with ice and snow sculptures, many of which are electrically illuminated, so that in general a holiday air prevails...