Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reason for the dullness was absence of many traders for a long vacation over the Lincoln's Birthday holiday. On Monday all the principal financial markets in the country will be closed...
Walter Huston, as peg-legged Pieter Stuyvesant in Knickerbocker Holiday, is a big acting hit on Broadway. One day this week, the 267th anniversary of Stuyvesant's death, Huston, in full costume, stumped up the chancel steps of Manhattan's historic St. Mark's-in-the-Bouwerie (where Stuyvesant is buried), reviewed the story of "his" life. "When I came to Nieuw Amsterdam," he said, "it was a filthy little village of 700 inhabitants, crowded into scarcely 100 flimsy shacks. . . . The rum shops were better attended than the churches...
...week and several more attempts, all unsuccessful, were made to damage Britain's vital public services. On the west coast of Eire, an abortive attempt was made to damage a hotel in Tralee where bespectacled, 25-year-old Francis Chamberlain, only son of the Prime Minister, was on holiday. Most Britons had forgotten that the Chamberlains had a son; British picture agencies, deluged with requests for his photograph had none. Young Chamberlain has been employed for a year as a $25-a-week apprentice at the Witton plant of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., where he is learning the armament...
Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, enjoying a quiet post-New Year holiday at the home of Lord Iveagh in Ely, Cambridgeshire, suddenly packed his bags and hurried to London last week. Government spokesmen explained that "bad weather" had forced Mr. Chamberlain to return. Indeed it had. The Prime Minister had hurried back to keep a close watch on the political bad weather which his policy of "appeasement" is now experiencing in Britain...
...been some dissatisfaction with Phillips Brooks House and its social service work. The critics charge that P.B.H. wasn't fulfilled to the best of its ability its position as Harvard's welfare organization. For until last year P.B.H. was doing little else but furnishing settlement workers and giving out holiday baskets of food to needy families. The importance of these functions, especially the former one, should not be underrated; it is still important to continue them. But they are really remedies for social ills and scarcely preventatives...