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Word: holidaying (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...CRIMSON is publishing a two-page sports extra today, instead of its usual larger paper. Ordinarily no paper would be published on today's legal holiday, Armistice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON SPORTS EXTRA TODAY | 11/11/1939 | See Source »

Toothy, swagger-minded Grover Whalen, president of New York's World's Fair, in Europe on a busman's holiday, attended the Swiss National Exposition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 30, 1939 | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY - W. Somerset Maugham - Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Melodrama within melodrama, made credible by Maugham's professional slickness, Christmas Holiday describes the shattering Paris holiday of a safe-&-sane young Englishman. Shatterers are a strip-tease pick up, who tells him about her marriage to a man who murdered for sport; a boyhood friend who is grooming himself to head the OGPU of a future Communist England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recent Books: FICTION | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...guarded all entrances and gates to the park, kept a close watch. Occasionally they frisked a man. Unfrisked was a Korean patriot who came in carrying what looked like a Japanese thermos bottle slung from his shoulder. (Thermos bottles and canteens are standard equipment for Japanese and subjects on holiday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 23, 1939 | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...them from unfulfilled vows, throbbed in countless synagogues. It was the eve of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement dedicated to fasting and turning toward God. At Yom Kippur's sunset, a blast on the shofar (ram's horn) brought to a close the ten-day high holidays of the new Jewish year. To Congregation B'nai Sholaum in Brooklyn, N. Y., the first day's sun of year 5700* brought something new-a woman in the pulpit. Helen Hadassah Levinthal, comely in academic gown and four-pointed choir-singer's cap, preached...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: First | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

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