Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...generation that knew the World War as only a faint glimmering on the edge of infant horizons, it is hard to tell the difference between Armistice Day and any other holiday that breaks up class-room routine. The parades, the athletic events, and the glorification of the stars and stripes are as typical of Navy Day or the nineteenth of April as the holiday just past. But unlike the jingoistic sensations that Patriots' Day arouses, the first Armistice Day marked not just the celebration of victory but also the coming of a new spirit of idealism for a war-weary...
...like Governor Curley, was applauded in every Roosevelt speech beginning before the State Capitol (where eleven women and a boy fainted) and ending at Stamford (where several people were injured in an automobile crash). In each town through which the President motored, the schools were dismissed and a general holiday proclaimed. At New Haven where Yale dormitories were decked with Landon banners but no boos were uttered, the President lunched with his eldest son's father-in-law, Dr. Harvey Gushing. Most enthusiastic crowd appeared in Socialist Bridgeport, but all through the shore towns of Fairfield County throngs packed...
...knowing quite whether he had harvested a bumper crop of votes or had merely provided New England with a holiday, President Roosevelt dictated his grief at the death of his rich and radical Senator James Couzens (see p. 53): "The people of Michigan and the nation have lost a leader whose convictions were part of the best that America aspires...
Docking in New York at 7:30 o'clock this morning the steamer Queen Mary brings President Conant back to America after a month's holiday in England. He had sailed during the week after the Tercentenary on September...
Meanwhile at Odessa, several thousand of Stalin's most industriously toiling "Stakhanovite" workers (TIME, Dec. 16) were accorded the privilege of a holiday at the waterfront while the Soviet steamer Kuban was loaded with clothes and food for Spanish Reds. Several Soviet steamers are now plying back & forth with this exceedingly tame assistance to Spaniards engaged in a death struggle for Communism in their country. At Barcelona last week the Soviet steamer Zirayanin landed 3,000 tons of foodstuffs amid a local celebration by the city's dominant Anarchists, Communists and Syndicalists...