Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After a Viennese ear & throat specialist had eased a pain in one of his ears. Edward of Wales last week shot a chamois in the Austrian Alps, stuffed the beard in his pocket, departed for Germany to continue his holiday. Meantime. Britons goggled at the latest picture of their future King-Emperor, taken just before he quit the French Riviera...
Proving to this unbelieving world that his word is better than his bonds, Mussolini has embarked upon what be hopes will be she royal road to empire. Only stringent action on the part of the few remaining rational nations of Europe can stop this Roman holiday before its author's dream has come true...
...Home Abroad (words & music by Howard Dietz & Arthur Schwartz; Shuberts, producers). Informally threaded around a couple who become so bored with the ubiquitousness of such U. S. personages as John D. Rockefeller and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt that they flee on a world tour, this "musical holiday" has no less than 25 numbers. Beatrice Lillie appears in about one out of every three. If the measure of a comic is the extent to which she is superior to her material, Comedienne Lillie rates second to none. Whether she is impersonating a British gentlewoman, an Alpinist, a geisha, a barmaid...
...Mayer, Goya authority, had never heard of it but, instantly recognizing it as a Goya of about 1787. asked permission to include it in all future editions of his book, Francisco de Goya. Within a month it was sold to Mrs. William R. Timken, sister-in-law of Henry Holiday Timken, maker of Timken Roller Bearings (TIME, Aug. 19). Well known only to dealers is Mrs. Timken's collection which includes a Boucher, a Fragonard, a Gainsborough and a brace each of Greuzes. Rembrandts and Van Dycks. The lady with the parrot is Mrs. Timken's only Goya...
...year at Aberdeen, Sir Josiah Stamp, voluble economist, director of the Bank of England, chairman of the London, Midland & Scottish Railway, engaged in a spirited, if indirect, debate with Sir James Jeans. Sir Josiah contended in effect that science was causing too much technological unemployment, had better take a holiday (TIME, Sept. 17, 1934). This year at Norwich the same Sir Josiah was elected president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science for the coming year. Sir Josiah promptly proved that this honor had not changed him in the slightest by delivering a discourse which he has been...