Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bearded farmers, raffish monks or intoxicated nuns. When, four years ago, this mood of conviviality caused an undergraduate to establish a bar in the bottom of a two-story charabanc, efforts were made to modify the diversions of Yale's Derby Day. It remained, last week, the chief holiday week-end of New Haven's spring. A quota of canoes, rocked by apparently inebriate paddlers, capsized above the dam. Presumably due to Depression, only half the seats were sold in the observation train. Critics who doubted the ability of the championship Cornell crew were embarrassed by the race...
Undoubtedly there will be some among the poor and unemployed who will turn rather misanthropically Socialistic at the sight. It is more probable that the majority of beholders, especially the children who will experience awe and a holiday, will become more firmly American...
...thought that if they could get the Legislature into the Capitol, Governor Bilbo would be forced to legalize its sitting by issuing a predated call. The wily Governor, however, countered by pointing out that April 27 was Confederate Memorial Day and that the Capitol would be closed for a holiday. The "Big Four" postponed the meeting one day. Declared Governor Bilbo...
Ruth is played by Alice Brady (Bride of the Lamb, Karl & Anna), who does a highly creditable job in a part far removed from her regular line of work. Ben Smith, the sensible young hedonist of Holiday, plays Larry. A Texan, Actor Smith's understanding of his role compensates for any artistic shortcomings. Lester Lonergan is superb as the wise, tolerant man of medicine...
Editor Stockbridge has been a newsman and author for 37 of his 60 years, is well known to journalists throughout the land. About two years ago he was engaged by Publisher John Holiday Perry to edit The American Press. That magazine had been a house organ of the American Press Association, a feature service for country weeklies, until The Fourth Estate was bought and merged with Editor & Publisher. Then Publisher Perry made it a general monthly magazine of the trade...