Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...subsidiary character owns a copy of that Italian's works. It is, on the contrary, a modern morality play showing how a carnival concessionaire (Spencer Tracy) works up to the status of amusement tycoon by dishonest means which cause his wife (Claire Trevor) to go off for a holiday...
...Kansas City, saying, "Mother-in-law jokes annoy me; I like all my in-laws," Dr. Thomas Richmond took all his 26 kin by marriage on a two-week holiday trip to Colorado, all expenses paid, in an 18-passenger bus. two automobiles and a truck...
...Sidney Kent, Winfield Sheehan announced that he had tendered his resignation. Said Mr. Kent: ". . . It was accepted with regret. I and the corporation extend our best wishes to Mr. Sheehan. . . . This matter has been settled amicably. . . ." Producer Sheehan felicitated the new management, said he had no plans except a holiday abroad...
Mamie Keselenko and Regina Lazar, two mildly adventurous Manhattan schoolteachers on a holiday jaunt to Mexico City, counted themselves very lucky last week when, hardly out of New York harbor on the 5.5. Oriente bound for Havana, they fell in with a voluble group of Manhattan intellectuals. Leader of their new friends was Clifford Odets, able young left-wing author of three (Awake and Sing, Waiting for Lefty, Till the Day I Die) of the twelve plays now running on Broadway. Among Odets' 14 companions were a Brooklyn Congregational minister, two Negroes, a correspondent for The Nation, a national...
John. At 36, with the title of associate publisher, John Cowles is in effect the boss of the Des Moines Register & Tribune. That he is able, is largely due to his intelligent inquisitiveness. Home on holiday from Phillips Exeter 20 years ago small John often would go with his father to the Register & Tribune office, perch himself on the desk of his father's secretary, Agnes ("Mac") MacDonald. spout a stream of questions: "What does so-&-so do? Is he smart? . . . What is that voucher for? Why is there a 2% discount marked on it? . . . How much does newsprint...