Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eliot himself was, as usual, far from Broadway. Last week, just returned from a holiday in South Africa, and with a slight tan covering his bookish pallor, Mr. Eliot was back in his accustomed London haunts, primly pacing his familiar round. His day began at 8 a.m. At noon, after a man-sized breakfast of tea, porridge, bacon & eggs, he set out for his place of business, the publishing firm of Faber & Faber, in Bloomsbury. He left his flat in Cheyne Walk, Chelsea (Expatriate Henry James used to live in the flat just below), wearing an impeccable dark blue suit...
Student ski fans took advantage of the holiday, jamming the slopes of Blue Hills and other local trails...
...movable holiday, because it depends on the of Easter each year. Just why, beats everybody except these people who like to keep up on sort of stuff. This year it happens to fall on the day before Washington's Birthday. People who know say there is no connection between the holidays...
...additional recommendation turned in by delegates, Miss Braverman said, will provide another "day of grace" following spring vacation for those who left library books at home during the Christmas holiday...
...Samuel Pepys, however, first to record a more contemporary view of this holiday. Sam celebrated the day in 1663 with the following entry in his diary...