Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dressed in their holiday best, the people of Loma Bonita turned out last week to honor their "most beloved citizen." The man: Frank Peters, 81, a native of Mount Carmel, Ill. The occasion: the dedication of the Frank Peters elementary school...
With her old friend Drucie Snyder Horton, daughter of the Treasury Secretary, and an escort of six Secret Service guards, Margaret Truman arrived in Malibu, Calif, for a two-week beach holiday and some personal appearances. For the radio, she chose the operetta Sari, in which she played the daughter of a gypsy fiddler; for television, she started rehearsing as the friendly foil of Comic Jimmy Durante...
...return to Kuwait. "We have bridge parties here and there's a woman's club that meets every other week," she says. "There's a dance every Thursday night. The first Thursday of the month it's formal, and on every British and American holiday there's a party. I think we go out a lot more than we did at home...
...light, humorous style. Telling the story in sprightly native idiom, Selina succumbs to digressions almost as often as to Boss Paul. Periodically, the novel stops to paint a tapestry of South African customs and manners, e.g., the rousing celebration of Dingaan's Day, a Boer national holiday, a bit of rural horseplay in which a gullible farmer eats lizard's eggs thinking they are stomach pills. Selina's voice bobs through the story, alternately playful and plaintive, but finally conveying the pain and humiliation for which she can never find a real remedy...
...final test, the candidate writes two brief descriptions of himself-as his severest critic and as his best friend would see him. Then he must give his opinion on how his fellow candidates would do as 1) civil servants, 2) holiday companions. Each year, about 25 survivors are picked as third secretaries in the Foreign Service. Many are already adept in that ancient talent of British diplomacy: the ability to open one's mouth and move one's lips to emit words which give the illusion, but only the illusion, of a reply...