Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rested by his recent seaside holiday, mellow old George V last week felt fit as a Stradivarius for his exhausting Silver Jubilee which commences May 6. Shushing the royal physicians, who favored further rest, the King-Emperor insisted on doing two major chores...
...that it's over, I don't think I'll work for either one of them again," said she. "It has been a terrible ordeal. Since October I have been like a pot boiling over. I think I shall take a week's holiday before I look for another...
...Germany, France and Russia in the proposed Eastern Locarno Peace effort (TIME, Feb. 18), His Majesty's Government found this week that they must take whatever initiative had to be taken in retort to Adolf Hitler. Visibly perturbed, Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon rushed to London from a holiday in South Wales...
...their privileges with discretion equal to that of other upperclassmen. Checking attendance at courses primarily for second-year men and other upperclassmen--such, for example, as History 5 and Economics A--should be abolished. Similarly, the paternalistic attitude concerning first and last classes before and after a major holiday can and should be discontinued. The laudable tendency to recognize upperclassmen as responsible and mature individuals must be carried to its logical conclusion--a clear-cut grant of all privileges to second-year...
...brother. That is all bunk. There is a nine-tiered umbrella in our Siamese ritual, but I have no idea who invented the titles usually ascribed to me. . . . I like the English countryside. The Queen and I have done a lot of motoring. Perhaps we may take a holiday now. I admit I am feeling rather tired...