Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last year, Speaker Bankhead lived up to his own advice as well as he followed his father's. This winter, after nearly three months' holiday at Jasper, Ala. (pop. 5,313) in Walker County which contains a town, a highway and a Resettlement project named for the Bankheads. Speaker Bankhead returned to Washington better equipped than he was last year for the rigors of a job that can be as rigorous as any in the land. Speaker Bankhead's hobby is collecting gavels used by his predecessors, of which he has six, belonging to Speakers Clark, Gillett...
...might just as well let the malignant machine have its own way. It can't keep it up indefinitely and I suppose that I can stand it for a second or so longer." Finding such trains of thought too wearisome for a mere ten o'clock on a Holiday Morning, the Vag, too lazy to get worried about his missing left arm, turned over, pulled the warm quilt over his head, and went back to sleep as quickly as possible...
...Rumania and Crown Prince Michael, onetime (1927-30) King, went shooting with Czechoslovakia's President Eduard Benes, the King barely nosed out the Prince in a playful massacre. In six hours Michael with his shotgun slaughtered 506 pheasants, partridges, hares, rabbits. His able father made a Bohemian holiday by shooting...
...just as potent and less easily out-moded. Of these, the chief one is the growing unwillingness of the youth of the democratic world to settle its differences by bloodshed. In short, the post-war generations may have failed to thrill or sob yesterday; they may have spent the holiday at the movies or in other relaxations; and they have been bored with eulogies and speeches. Yet, despite their indifference to past wars and celebrations of past victories, this one thing they are sure of: they want no part in future wars...
...announced that the sixth lecture of the series would take place Thursday evening, despite the holiday. Edwin B. Booth, professor of Historical Theology in Vassar College, will speak on the Scriptures. Booth is the only speaker of the series not connected with the College...