Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University of West Virginia news leaked out that a Democratic Board of Governors was about to oust the University's President John Roscoe Turner, stanch Republican. Several hundred students walked out of classes in a noisy "one-day holiday" of protest...
...porkbarrelism which these professed patriots wish to engage in to such an almost unlimited extent. In spite of their Americanism, which they loudly and self-righteously proclaim, the Legionaires would like to see the money in the Treasury portioned out to them in a manner more befitting a Roman holiday, than the efforts of a grateful government to give relief to its deserving and American protectors. But of course the Legionaires are no more the protectors of the credit of the United States than they are the protectors of the American Veterans Association or Soviet Russia or the National Economy...
...last word of the title. This should cause no greater harm than mispronunciation among cinemaddicts. For the rest, the picture sticks to the pattern of its footlight original, with satisfactory results. Fred Astaire is still the centre of whatever plot there is. A dancer on a European holiday, he pursues a young lady (Ginger Rogers) who is seeking divorce from an absurd geologist. There appear the impediments customary in musicomedy romance. Astaire is mistaken for a professional corespondent whom the young lady's guardians (Alice Brady and Edward Everett Horton) have ordered from an agency. A fatuous waiter makes...
...Smith: "I was tempted to swap the Empire State Building." Chairman Jones thumped the tub of slum clearance. Informed that the first of the two units was already 95% rented, while the second unit (to be opened Dec. 1) was 50% rented, he waved an expansive hand at the holiday bunting, declared: "I know of no ... safer investment for public funds than to clear about 500 acres of your slums...
...cancer. To him, the logical treatment is to saturate the patient with oxygen under pressure, which theoretically permeates to the morbid organisms and kills them. The Bureau of Investigation of the American Medical Association, after due consideration, has denounced this theory of therapy as so much quackery. Nevertheless, Henry Holiday Timken, reclusive roller-bearing tycoon, had sufficient faith in Dr. Cunningham's ideas to give him $1,000,000 to construct his tank hospital in Cleveland...