Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...largest crowd in the memory of anybody present turned out to watch the holiday regatta, guzzle beer, and listen to the Band. It had an hour extra to do so because rough water in the lower basin delayed the start of the race by an hour...
...members of the House were frank about their intentions; they wanted an Easter holiday. So they airily waved aside their unfinished work, voted themselves an eleven-day holiday until April 2, and happily dispersed...
...Democrat Spessard Holland pointed out, the only members who needed to be in the chamber were those who were going to make speeches on the subject before the Senate. Nobody expected any new ideas from them, nobody expected any votes to be changed. So off home for an undeclared holiday went about 60 Senators, leaving a handful of Republicans in Washington to talk into the record the last unneeded words of the moribund Great Debate...
With Embroidery Scissors. Neither legislative wing could claim that it had done much to earn the holiday. True, in 38 days the Senate had passed 163 measures; in 33 days the House had passed 104 measures. But many of them were of minor import, to say the most, e.g., authorization for the Marine Corps Band to give a concert at South Boston, Mass., designation of 1951 as Audubon Centennial Year. Only a few major bills, such as extension of rent control, a $2.7 billion appropriation for navy shipbuilding, had been passed and sent to the White House...
Students who stay in Cambridge this week will find library, dining, and athletic facilities virtually unimpaired by the holiday. Fifty-five Radcliffe girls will live in Cabot Hall over the vacation, but will have to eat elsewhere...