Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Between Christmas and New Year, when students have gone home for their midwinter frolic, university scientists are accustomed to put down their textbooks and laboratory tools and go on a busman's holiday. Soberly they attend dozens of conventions, read thousands of papers, talk shop, elect officers, award prizes, take stock of a year's progress, get their names in the newspapers, mingle with a sprinkling of industrial colleagues. Last week geologists convened in Cincinnati, geographers in Syracuse, mathematicians in Durham, N. C., philosophers in Cambridge, astronomers in Frederick, Md. (see p. 52), anthropologists in Washington, chemists...
Grateful for a succulent holiday gift which was inexplicably left at his Manhattan apartment, onetime Publisher Ralph Pulitzer of the old New York World inserted an advertisement in the New York Times: "PULITZERS want to thank unknown benefactor for six anonymous ducks...
Winning three out of a possible four points on the last day of the Y.H.P.D. College Chess Tournament held in New York during the holiday season, the Crimson team once more emerged victorious...
...Chicago Times Lawyer Clarence Darrow wrote: "I don't know what Christmas is all about anyhow. I think it is a humbug. ... As a holiday the Fourth of July had it beat a mile. On the Fourth I used to get up right after midnight to shoot off anvils. It made a loud sound. It was a lot of fun. Nobody knows why we celebrate Christmas-to keep up the old bunk I suppose. Some religious people think it is the day Christ was born. They don't know any more about it than a woodchuck." Mrs. Darrow...
...Fiction A BOOK HUNTER'S HOLIDAY-A. S. W. Rosenbach-Honghton Mifflin ($4). Rich, rosy-cheeked Bibliophile Abraham Simon Wolf Rosenbach writes in a breezy after-dinner way on the romantic sidelights of book collecting in general, his own famed collection in particular, including such bargains as the Button Gwinnett letter at $51,000, five pages of the Pickwick Papers...