Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what the British call "sound" man, at whose London house the Prime Minister of the day and even the King are glad to lunch or dine. It was no wonder, therefore, that two small news items about Sir Robert last week provided official Britain with its chief topic of holiday conversation...
...Shoemakers' Holiday (by Thomas Dekker; produced by the Mercury Theatre). With his modern-dress Julius Caesar still playing to capacity audiences in its eighth week, last week Actor-Producer Orson Welles turned again to the gusty Elizabethans. Bawdier than three burlesque shows, but too disarmingly frank and deftly acted to be offensive, The Shoemakers' Holiday struck Broadway like a brisk wind. Good Queen Bess, never a prude, must have liked it too, and roared like a sailor...
During the holiday the Vagabond planned to take a motor trip from New York to Washington. Now despite his numerous roamings and rovings, the Vagabond has long been the victim of two middle-aged tyrants, called parents by facetious sociologists and naive maiden aunts, who are cruelly solicitous for the health of his molars as well as the cyst beneath his right shoulder blade. These two, who conceal their despotism under a jacket of social charm and kindness (so that all but himself considers them as unusually fine specimens of humanity), ruffled their feathers in immediate response to the Vagabond...
Crimson sports teams will return to competition this week after the Christmas holiday recess with fourteen contests scheduled, outstanding among which are hockey games with University of Montreal and McGill University and two basketball games with Tufts and Dartmouth...
Renewed concentration by the Building Service Union in their three-weeks-old drive to organize maintenance employees is now under way after a short period of inactivity over the holiday season, according to Robert H. Everitt, director of the drive...