Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First proclamation of Burgomaster Schmitz was to announce that May Day, traditional holiday of Socialist Vienna, will still be a holiday, but to celebrate the Socialist defeat in the bloody revolt of February...
April 1 may be All-Fools' Day to the rest of the world but to U. S. coal miners it is Eight Hour Day. It has been a coal fields holiday ever since 1898 when the shorter day was finally won. This year because April 1 fell on Sunday, no coal miners worked Monday. But when the happy cutters, loaders, drillers, bonders, spraggers, snappers, trappers, trimmers, timbermen, bottom-cagers, slate-pickers and all the rest went back to the mines on Tuesday, it was to work not eight hours but seven. For last week United Mine Workers of America...
Feted in every port, they got their biggest reception in Venezuela. There old Dictator-President Juan Vicente Gomez declared a public holiday, motored them over 300 mi. of flower-strewn highway, spent $20,000 out of his own pocket to give them a luncheon and ball, pay all their expenses...
Returning to Manhattan from a West Indian holiday, Sprinkler Manufacturer William Magraw discovered that his wife, Lucy Cotton Thomas Ament Hann Magraw, widow of Publisher Edward R. Thomas of the New York Morning Telegraph and twice a divorcee, had cut off all her hair. The New York Dailv Mirror printed her photograph. Said Magraw, who is even balder than his wife: "It is the beginning of a reaction against artificiality. . . . This hairdressing business has become a racket. . . . For color she will wear transformations. ... If she wants to wear red, green or purple hair, it is all one with...
...uncatchable lead, in a. century of racing over the muddy 4 ¼ miles on the winding Thames from Putney to Mortlake. But for the last ten years, endless to Oxonians, the motley millions who roar from the banks of the river and from the big brewery windows, the tumultuous holiday crowd of picnickers, cheap-jacks, street musicians and acrobats have cheered "Caa-a-am-bridge!" as the light blue's eight-legged scorpion came skating over the water in a series of monotonous victories. This spring with a strong, heavy crew Oxford set about the business of acquiring...