Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the House off on a three-week holiday, Senators bent their backs to a grueling double chore. One was the job of cutting expenditures, in which President Truman, continually suggesting ways to spend money, gave little help. The other was to squeeze out of the taxpayers, without squeezing them dry, enough new funds to meet the huge Government outlays...
Last month, after Frankie and Ava (and a dozen reporters) finished a cozy Mexican holiday (TIME, Aug. 13), Sinatra went to work in a Reno nightclub to make some money toward his forthcoming divorce (Cracked one Hollywood wit:"He's earning while he's yearning"). Ava stayed at nearby Lake Tahoe and came to hear him sing. Sinatra meekly told the press: "I think you can safely say that Miss Gardner and I will be married...
...mind the many requests received from trade unions," the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet last week ruled that Jan. 22, official Day of Memory for Lenin, will no longer be a day off. The workers, said the Presidium, had "correctly" taken the position "that the holding of a public holiday . . . is not in keeping" with the revering of Lenin. The ukase raised an interesting question: whether Lenin, who used to share joint billing with Joseph Stalin, is now being shunted farther & farther back into a dark corner of the Soviet Pantheon...
...holiday rest, Britain's Prime Minister Clement Attlee arrived at a resort hotel in Jotunheimen, Norway, where 25 fellow countrymen on tour greeted him with a burst of song ("For he's a jolly good fellow"). Later, starting out on a mountain hike, the Prime Minister firmly refused to wear sunglasses. Said he to his wife: "It seems to me that the world looks too gloomy through them...
...Dulleses, fresh from a brief holiday on an island in Lake Ontario, finished their sodas and boarded another plane. Buried in his newspaper and his preoccupations, Dulles flew on to Washington...