Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what is funny about war? What is funny about Bubonic Plague? The CRIMSON'S campaign of advertising and publicity for the crowd of peanut brains who disrupted Friday's meeting was nicely calculated to attract all the lunatic fringe to turn out in expectation of a royal Roman holiday. The gleeful reporting fraternity and cameramen cooperated to make the flasco a howling success. The University had given the National Students League permission to hold the meeting; it had not given such permission to the counter-demonstration. Therefore the University is utterly to blame for not instructing the Yard police...
...classes. Some few of these will have heard of Patriot's Day something as they have heard of Bastille Day; but to others the Lexington-Concord commemoration will be a complete novelty in the way of vacation alibis. To all, whether they admit it or not, the holiday will constitute a nuisance and an undesirable distraction...
...advent with some apathy. He whom the Fates frowned on at the midyears has long since received a neatly printed notice from the Dean's Office reminding him that due to his failure to maintain a B average he must be particularly careful not to cut classes around holiday time. The implied threat is the big stick of probation for the feckless undergraduate who is careless enough to bid defiance to University Hall on this momentous question by slipping down to Wellesley or Smith on pleasure bent and returning beyond the deadline of his first class...
...concessions to honor men. But the abolition of compulsory attendance has rendered even this feeble encouragement completely obsolete. Whatever may be the attitude next year of the authorities toward revising probation and attendance at classes, it is to be hoped that restrictions of no obvious value around vacation and holiday times will be relegated to the scrap-heap...
Potshots at the President-elect, a bank holiday, a many-decked New Deal, a World Fair, Mae West, the midget on Mr. Morgan's lap, Repeal, Rolphing- last year they all laid headlines across the country, inked rotogravures, filled newsreels drumtight and gave Vanity Fair's (then) Cinemacritic Pare Lorentz an idea. With an eye on Laurence Stallings' photostory, The First World War (whose pictures have boomed in more than 50 newspapers-TIME, Feb. 26), Cinemacritic Lorentz edited the pictures of the first New Deal year, pictures of the war on Depression. Last week he published...