Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With Secretary of War Bern ashore to observe and report on Rhode Island textile troubles (see p. 22), the President declared a week-end holiday from official business. On Sunday he invited Challenger Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith and Defender Harold Stirling Vanderbilt to tea aboard the Nourmahal, chatted about the disappointment of seeing the first race called for time, wished both sides the best of luck and better racing weather the coming week...
Though they did not talk that way face to face, Sir James Hopwood Jeans and Sir Josiah Charles Stamp were in effect last week debating a familiar old question at the Aberdeen meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. The question: Shall Science take, a holiday? Sir James as the astronomer-physicist president of the Association, held out doggedly against such an idea one day on one platform. The next day on another platform Sir Josiah, as the Association's economist-tycoon treasurer, seemed to think it would do no great harm...
...Kingfish hastily concocted a Louisiana holiday celebrating the 16th anniversary of the day after the day President Wilson gave German Ambassador Count von Bernstorff his walking papers. From this fantastic episode Banker Hecht got considerable but not wholly dignified publicity...
Aladar Kuncz, a young Hungarian teacher, was spending his 1914 summer holiday in a Breton seaside village. News of the War's beginning sent him scurrying to Paris, where with hundreds of his countrymen he besieged his consulate, tried to get transportation home or to some neutral country. Too late for the last train, he and his kind were interned "for the duration of the War." Luckily for them, they had no idea how long that was to be. After a few weeks' temporary detention in a garage at Périgueux. Kuncz and his comrades were sent to Noirmoutier...
...rival RKO's Little Women at the Exposition, MGM sent Viva Villa!, Fox The World Moves On, Paramount Death Takes a Holiday, Warner Brothers Wonder Bar, United Artists Affairs of Cellini, Universal The Invisible Man and Walt Disney an unnamed short. Though Extase had unquestionably stolen the show last week, the Exposition's first prize remained to be awarded, was expected to go to some less popular film...