Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little of that is enough for her. She wants children, marries a wealthy cousin Ben Terwogt. The children come, but not happiness. On a summer holiday she runs into Alf. He declares that she had been his only love. Once more she has a chance, but, though it breaks her heart, she turns it down. In the masquerade of Delft society she has chosen her own false face, and now must live...
...HINDOO HOLIDAY-J. R. Ackerley-Viking...
...Author Ackerley served throughout the War, ended it a Captain. After taking a degree at Cambridge University, he took up with the stage, played in Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra, produced in 1925 a play of his own, The Prisoners of War, since published in book form. Hindoo Holiday is his second book...
...Babylon and Nineveh and ancient Rome," cried he, "wallowed in the wealth of material prosperity, stood naked and unashamed in their perdition?and suc- cumbed. But the human lamp posts of Xero. the men, women and children thrown to the lions at the Colosseum for a Roman holiday, gave us the artesian springs of Christianity that rule the world, while the splendors of Rome are almost forgotten memories...
...Walls. Tom Walls had bought April the Fifth-named for its birthday, which was also Actor Walls's-as a yearling for 200 guineas. Last week he told all his friends to bet on April the Fifth, promised his cinema company at Elstree a week's holiday...