Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...added up to one of the gloomiest holiday seasons Harry Truman had ever faced. Behind him the rising tide of scandal pressed closer; ahead loomed the steel deadlock, which might bring the sharpest economic crisis of the year. The President ducked his weekly press conference, labored grimly through the week over his messages on the State of the Union and the budget. This week he boarded his plane for a short respite in Independence, a sorely troubled King Augeas, with not a Hercules in sight...
...workaday schoolrooms of Ottawa's Joan of Arc Institute were bright with holiday colors as proud fathers & mothers gathered for the annual Christmas pageant. Word soon got around that a distinguished family was in the audience: Canada's Governor General Viscount Alexander of Tunis, his wife Lady Alexander and their two sons, Shane and Brian. Then everyone quieted down to watch the nursery school actors dance and do their little play called Where Do You Come From, Shepherd...
Taking along several thousand Talking Letter recording tapes, Cardinal Spellman left Manhattan to spend Christmas with the troops in Korea. Invited to make the holiday visit to the war zone by General James A. Van Fleet, the cardinal planned to arrive in time to say Christmas Mass "any place, even if it is in a cave. I'll be happier in Korea than any place else, even St. Patrick's Cathedral...
...matter of fact, we corrected that error in the very next issue of the paper (October 12 was a holiday). I enclose two copies of that edition with the correction marked. It is a policy of this paper to correct errors like this in exactly the same spot where they were made, but as a college paper we felt forced to run our football story in Column 5--our main spot--and run the erratum in Column...
They disliked the holiday because in England it had meant a traditional two week binge. On one of the boats crossing the Atlantic, passengers celebrated Christmas with a fortnight-long drunk, which caused twelve deaths. After that, the Puritan opinion of the Yuletide was markedly unfavorable. Things reached the point where Samuel Sewell in 1670 rode through Boston streets admonishing store keepers who closed shop on December...