Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Miller's writing career began after he finished high school at 17 and joined the staff of the Cleveland Press as a copy boy in 1929, a few days before the market crash. Later, as a reporter, he covered the 1933 bank holiday, the Bonus Army's march, the Little Steel strike and the shooting of "Pretty Boy" Floyd, and he survived a mid-air collision at the National Air Races. He covered World War II as a correspondent. He has interviewed, among others, Lord Halifax, Earl Browder, Newton D. Baker, Clarence Darrow, John Barrymore and Gertrude Stein...
...Record: An infantry lieutenant in the Far West's 91st Division in World War I, severely wounded in the Meuse-Argonne sector; in World War II, which surprised him on holiday in Honolulu, he served as major in various stateside jobs...
Following the game with Boston University, the Crimson faces 14 other teams, and in addition a two-day Christmas holiday tourney with Boston College, Northeastern, and Boston University. The sextet will play its tournament games in the Arena...
With it is a relatively old Guinness film, Last Holiday. It is not as good as his latest movies, but it provides an excellent study of technique evolution. Last Holiday was one of Guinness' first attempts at the "little man turning tables" technique. Not so polished as later productions, it is still extremely funny in parts. As in the recent Guinness comedies, the table slips on the little man in the end, but in Last Holiday it falls much too abruptly...
Tomorrow being Crimson Bowl Day besides Armistice Day, there will be a CRIMSON distributed in the morning, contrary to the usual holiday practice. Tuesday's CRIMSON will be a program for the Crimson Bowl game, listing the rosters of both the Rineharts and the Wintergreens...