Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before going on a holiday the court last week decided...
After a good holiday spent in writing his last few fizzlers, Author Sabatini in The Black Swan returns to his true character as romancer. The scene of his romance is the Caribbean Sea, the time soon after the death of England's second Charles. At this period pirates and buccaneers, having buried their pots of gold, were beginning to bury themselves. Even a respectable pirate like Henry Morgan had been retired to the governorship of Jamaica, bribed with a knighthood, pending his extermination of what few old buccaneer friends of his still carried on. Most reprobate, most elusive...
...SUMMER HOLIDAY-Sheila Kaye-Smith -Harper...
With a nurse for its villain and two little Sussex girls for heroines. Authoress Kaye-Smith's Summer Holiday is less a novel than a thinly veiled autobiographical sketch. The story is dedicated to "Moira" the younger heroine, who with her dreamier sister Selina spends a blissful summer on a farm near Hastings, near Authoress Kaye-Smith's home town, St. Leonards-on-Sea. Hayrides, all-day suckers, caterpillars in matchboxes, unripe pears, bellyaches and bellyaching, make half the Kaye-Smith children's fun. Their simple growing love for the Sussex countryside and country people makes...
...birthday, the moonbeams, the skyscraper and treasure chest were pleasant things. The reality was not. It was the same reality which has caused many a semi-retired executive to return to his desk, including John North Willys. Errett Lobban Cord, Henry Holiday Timken, Otto Hermann Kahn. It was the reality which has so upset Mr. Doherty's fellow utilitarian, Samuel Insull...