Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Palatinate, Germany, in 1840, emigrated at the age of 6, always spoke English with an accent. He always drew. At the age of 15, a small, fat boy, he asked the imposing Frank Leslie for a job. To get rid of him Publisher Leslie told him to draw the holiday crowds at the Hoboken ferry. So good was the result that fat Tommy Nast was promptly hired?at $4 a week. Constant difficulty in collecting even this salary caused him to leave Leslie's Weekly. The New York Illustrated News sent him to Italy to follow the triumphal advance...
...brag of. Mr. Stevens was a poorly paid clerk; Dick and Mary worked out; Mrs. Stevens kept house; young Ernie kept it lively. They could afford few pleasures; they were fed up with tedious work; they took little interest in the out-side world, but-they took their holiday...
...14th anniversary of the Red Army. Not only at Khabarovsk but all over Russia, militant spirits ran high. Theatres and opera houses were packed with Red soldiers and Red commanders ("officers" have been abolished) who entered free, loudly cheered by passersby. But the great day was not a holiday for Soviet civilians?Josef Stalin saw to that, and Soviet newsorgans dared print nothing stronger than the Dictator's slogan: "We do not want a single inch of foreign soil but we will not give up a single inch...
Throughout the whole homily Beatrice Lillie parades her usual timeless and unalterable self, tiring to some, but to most an unending delight. Hope Williams has not altered either. As she was in "Holiday," so she is in "Too True To Be Good," boyish and earnest for the most part, unconvincing in many moment. Hugh Sinclair is most constantly heard: "Popsy's satisfied so long as you let him talk," is well applied to him. Ernest Cossart is excellent as Colonel Tallboys; we wish, with him, to "bash." The Elderly Lady over the head, then extending to her our apologies...
...Blue started off the season with a brilliant series of victories, but the loss of team-work and the absence of Iglehart from the post-holiday line-up shattered the team's power so that the present record stands at seven won and seven lost. Most significant victories on the Eli schedule have been those over Army, Dartmouth, and the Boston Hockey Club. Other victories were at the expense of St. Nicholas, Melrose Hockey Club, and Boston University. Yale has lost to Clarkson, Crescent A. C., Metropolitan, Princeton and Toronto. The last two teams were defeated by Harvard...