Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cool of his Rapidan camp last Sunday President Hoover lolled restfully. It was the first relaxation he had had in a week of intense negotiation with France over his proposed debt holiday (see p. 16). His eye roved across the placid Virginia countryside. Inside the "Town Hall" a telephone bell rang. It was Acting Secretary of State William Richards Castle Jr. in Washington. The President, excited, almost leaped to the instrument. What was it? Another note from France. Was it satisfactory? No, it made serious proposals counter to the President's plan. Very well, the President would return immediately...
...capital 112 mi. away. Thirty miles along the road a car from his camp careened up beside the President's motor. Its driver handed Mr. Hoover a box of sandwiches prepared after his departure. Without stopping the President munched bread & chicken & cheese while his car whizzed through heavy holiday traffic, got him back to the White House in the record time...
When he returned to the White House from his Rapidan camp early last week, President Hoover found his desk stacked with messages from all the world applauding his debt holiday plan. He glanced at a few-"stroke of genius," "fine constructive step," "thousands will thank God for you." Then, sweeping the rest aside, he plunged into six days of hard exciting work-the kind which makes a man glad to be President. For the first time he felt the exquisite sensation of a united nation behind him on a major issue. He became, almost overnight, a changed man, a nerveless...
...were drawn), and Old Etonians like to remember that Old Etonian Wellington said: "The Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton!" Harrovians counter by pointing out that Eton has some 1,100 students from which to choose its cricketers; Harrow only 700. Seven weeks of holiday stretch from the end of the Summer Term to the beginning of the Autumn Term. To Eton (King's College of Our Lady of Eton beside Windsor) will then come a new batch of 13 and 14-year-oldsters. As pupils in Britain's largest, most expensive (average...
Eton's greatest holiday takes place on Speech Day. This, June 4, is the birthday of King George III, Eton's greatest patron, who is more revered even than King Henry VI who founded Eton in 1440. It is because King George III is dead that Eton keeps to its melancholy mourning garb of black suit and shiny topper. All but 29 Etonians must throughout the year observe a number of strict rules: they must leave unbuttoned the bottom waistcoat button, (and in after life they usually continue to do so). They must walk, with coat collar turned...