Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Candidate Adlai Stevenson climbed into his state-owned, two-engine Beechcraft last week, and flew off to the Wisconsin north woods for three days of fishing and his first holiday since he won the Democratic nomination. He picked a Hollywood version of a hunting lodge on the 138-acre country estate of an old friend, Clark W. Finnerud, a Chicago dermatologist...
...London, Actor José Ferrer announced that he would take a couple of seasons' holiday from the New York stage to prevent people from getting tired of his face. "Audiences can see too much of an actor. An actor owes it to them to withdraw gracefully on occasion...
...beach at Rapallo, Italy, photographers caught a merry picture of Renato Roberto Rossellini, 2, getting a piggyback ride from his famous mother, Ingrid Bergman, treating herself to a holiday after giving birth to twin daughters two months...
...Rome has celebrated Ferragosto for some 2,000 years. Most historians trace its origin to the three-day jeriae augustales (holidays of Augustus) proclaimed in 29 B.C. in honor of the triumphant return of Caesar Augustus from his campaign against Antony and Cleopatra. Some say it has even earlier beginnings. Six centuries later it became a universal Roman Catholic holiday, celebrating the anniversary of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary into heaven...
...Most Rev. Dr. Geoffrey Francis Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, and his wife arrived in Manhattan for a five-week holiday in Boxford, Mass, as guests of the Rt. Rev. Henry Knox Sherrill, Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the U.S. Mrs. Fisher said that she intended to see something of the countryside "to find out how Americans really live." Dr. Fisher, who will make two addresses during his visit, said part of his time would be spent boning up on the coronation rite for the crowning of Queen Elizabeth II next June. Also, though not as active...