Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stardom. By no means awed at this status, Cinemactress Hobart was in much the same position a year ago when, after making her second talkie (A Lady Surrenders), she returned to the stage whence she had been coaxed by Carl Laemmle Jr., who admired her in Death Takes a Holiday. Her face, not conventionally beautiful, photographs better when turned toward the camera than in profile. The charm of her low voice perfectly survives recording. Born Rose Kefer in Manhattan 25 years ago of musician parents (her father, a cellist; her mother, a singer) Miss Hobart was educated...
Secretary of the Interior Wilbur will swing through the national parks for a holiday at his Sierra Nevada Mountain camp...
When Manhattan Banker John Edward Aldred ordered holiday bathers off the private beach of his home, Ormston House at Locust Valley, L. I., they pelted him with stones. Next day a private police booth was erected on Banker Aldred's estate which is flanked by the homes and beaches of George Fisher Baker, Mrs. Henry Pomeroy Davison and John Pierpont Morgan...
...first grand holiday was last Thursday morning. There, in Memorial Hall, he labored for hours over the 56 passages which were given for English 2, under the now traditional heading: "Interpret, discuss, supply information, as the case may require. Answers should be full, precise, and well expressed. Vague paraphrases are not acceptable. It is well to quote parallel passages. Indicate the context. Do not copy the questions." Yes, that does cover the situation pretty well, on the whole...
...celebrate no particular holiday or hero but to show their own prowess, 42 brass bands marched the streets of Tulsa, Okla., last week, then all played together a concert under Bandmaster John Philip Sousa. This grand and noisy occasion was the climax of the Sixth National High School Band Contest. Joliet, Ill. played best of the big schools, Hobart, Ind. of the middle-sized schools, West De Pere, Wis. of the small schools. Fortnight ago in Cleveland the best orchestras came from Cleveland's Glenville High School, East Chicago's Roosevelt High School, Decatur, Mich. High School...