Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME'S Art writer, Alexander Eliot, spent a long working holiday in Europe last year talking with artists and looking at their work. He found a number of young painters and sculptors that TIME readers should know about, and reported on them in subsequent TIME stories, but he came home convinced that the old men of French art still far outstrip their followers...
...kids, drenched, tired, their ears buzzing with martial music, hate-laden lies and head colds, began the long trek home. The holiday was over, and it was still raining...
Happy Days. Under the spell of the good news, the market surged up: the Dow-Jones industrial average reached 222.57, a new peak, the highest since September 1930. (At the start of this week, with slow trading because of the Memorial Day holiday, the market was quiet...
...hemlock), it hits the underpinning of the economy first. Laboring men begin the Great Walkout - miners, fruit pickers, dock-wallopers, bus boys; by the thousands they quit their jobs, pocket their pills, and lam out for Florida. Short crops and short fuel send other thousands after them. The greatest holiday in history...
Smith's favorite subjects are baseball, football, horse racing, and boxing. However, there are also columns on the Olympic games ("the amateur sporting world's clearest expression of nationalism"), the Indianapolis "500" (a gigantic, grimy lawn party, a monstrous holiday compounded of dust and danger and noise, the world's biggest carnival midway and the closest sporting approach permitted by the Humane Society to the pastimes which once made the Roman Coliseum known as the Yankee Stadium of its day--cars are used in this entertainment because the S.P.C.A. frowns on lions"), on basketball, on the Westminster Kennel Club...