Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...London's sooty, bustling Paddington station one morning last week, travelers paused in their rush to catch holiday trains, trainmen and porters put down the tools of their trade, and all together, as fellow subjects of Britain's King George VI, sang the words of their national anthem. All over Britain, in churches of every denomination, others were singing the hymn's familiar words with special solemnity. "When we sing 'Send him victorious,' " said Canon Adam Fox to a hushed congregation in Westminster Abbey, "we mean over all his enemies and especially over his present...
...royal family were all gathered near by. The Queen had cut short her Balmoral holiday a week before. The Duke of Gloucester had canceled a shooting trip to hurry to London. Princess Margaret flew down from Scotland. Princess Elizabeth and her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, called off their plan to sail to Canada; they planned to fly over later if all went well. Even the Duke of Windsor, the elder brother whose abdication made George king, was on hand...
Party Going is shy of plot, even for plot-shy Henry Green. Seven bright young crumbs from the British upper crust set out for a holiday in France; they never get there. A dense fog anchors them to a London terminal-and four hours of each other's clabbering company. The rich and amiable sponsor of the party, Max Adey, wangles hotel rooms to wait in, and they go for each other, hammers & tongues...
Britain's Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison finished his Scandinavian holiday by eating a codfish and champagne lurch with Queen Louise and King
...stock market sprang another surprise last week. Normally, before a holiday, the market is supposed to turn dull and drop a few points. But last week, in a strong upsurge, it rose four points to 270.25 in the Dow-Jones industrial averages, the highest mark in more than 21 years...