Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Belgrade Holiday...
Capp has set out to rescue the woman-hood of Dogpatch from the fate of losing Sadie Hawkin's Day, a Dogpatch holiday which has reached its full, horrible flowering in the backwoods matriarchy of Capp's nightmares...
...wheeled up a great brass bell and banged away with demoniac glee. The whole town (pop. 59,500) welcomed the clangor. The Eagles of Abilene High School were whooping it up for their game with Big Spring, and when Texas high schools play football, their home towns take a holiday...
...staged the biggest demonstration since the Reds seized China. In sensitive Hong Kong, far more Chinese showed Nationalist colors on Double Tenth than had displayed the Red flag on the Oct. 1 anniversary of the Communist victory. In neutralist Cambodia, more Chinese shut their shops on the Nationalists' holiday than on the Communists'. Editorialized the New York Times hopefully: "The concept of freedom cannot be killed by Communist maneuver. The new and great days of a truly free China are still to come...
With plenty of works in progress but no finished manuscript under his arm, Novelist Ernest Hemingway arrived incognito with wife Mary at a midtown Manhattan hotel for a quiet holiday far from his Cuban finca. Meanwhile, two short stories, the first new Hemingway fiction to be published since The Old Man and the Sea in 1952, were being put to bed for the centennial issue of the Atlantic, which will be out at the end of October. Apparently stemming from the experience Hemingway underwent when he was temporarily blinded after his plane crash in Africa in 1954, the stories...