Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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LITTLE ROCK, Sept. 30--Little Rock was relaxed today as an almost holiday atmosphere greeted the opening of the annual Arkansas Livestock Exposition, billed as a spectacular show combining rodeo action and exhibits of prize farm animals...
...national holiday was declared last week in Iraq to celebrate the official engagement, but the wedding will not take place until next summer, when Feisal's new, blue-domed palace is finished. Besides, Fazilet's mother insisted: "She has to finish her schooling, you know." Which school? "Oh," said the bride's father, already feeling the lessening of his parental responsibilities, "we'll leave all that to King Feisal...
Snub-nosed, bright-eyed Princess Yasmin, 7, on leave from Mamma Rita Hayworth, who is filmmaking in California, for a holiday in France with Papa Aly Khan, trained for the event by chomping an eclair and sloshing it down with lemonade, then went to the post for the children's race at Saint-Pierre-Sur-Dives a two-to-one favorite. Steering her half-sized sulky and Shetland pony Conga, she caught the inside rail and held it, finished a three-length winner. Her purse: two kilos of hard candy. Absent from the railbirds: her horse-loving papa...
...citizens of Haji Salleh village naturally became alarmed. Something, the people said, has cast a spell over the girls and they sent for some local bomohs (medicine men) to drive the evil away. The first delegation of bomohs failed miserably: after the girls returned from their Hari Raya Haji holiday (20 days before the Moslem New Year), they went on a rampage again. Another six bomohs came, but after prayers, incantations and trances, announced that the evil spirit was much greater than they. One bomoh decided that the spirit must lodge in a certain rubber tree, ordered the tree...
FANCY DECANTERS, introduced by liquor companies to boost Christmastime sales, are on the way out. National Distillers, second-ranking U.S. liquor maker (Old Grand-Dad, Old Crow, etc.) will drop its holiday deluge of decanters this winter, figures sales increase is not worth the extra cost of molding, shipping, distributing the fanciful bottles...