Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Travel magazines have usually followed a rich but static pattern of photographs and articles designed to lure the reader to places far away. Into the field last week came the first monthly issue of Holiday, bringing a refreshing atmosphere of play to the subject of travel...
Unlike its predecessors, Holiday appears unconcerned whether readers contemplate a six-month voyage to the other side of the world, or a weekend in a battered Ford to the nearest trout stream or football game. It seems less interested in telling where to go than in suggesting what to do upon getting there. Also new is Holiday's willingness to poke fun at the grimly thorough tourist...
Publisher of Holiday is the American Automobile Association, through its executive vice president Ernest N. Smith. But there is nothing of the motor tour guide about the magazine. The theory is that of all who might yield to the Holiday impulse to go somewhere, enough will naturally choose automobiles. The Association expects Holiday to stand on its own feet as a publishing venture, expects it to attract advertisers of transportation, resorts, sporting goods, luggage, all accessories of travel. Guaranteed circulation for the first issue...
...Gusher Holiday...
...within their recollections. As delighted as its owners were the children who swarmed out to witness the spectacle, for the fire chief ordered the school closed because of fire hazard until other wells could be brought in to relieve the gusher's pressure. But jubilation over the gusher holiday was short lived. Next day the Wheeler pupils were squeezed into desks at other city schools...