Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boys Who Ran a 'House' at Harvard," will appear as a feature story in the Confidential Magazine, appearing on news stands today. The article discusses the alleged libidinous and procurative activities of a so-called Holiday Club, run by students...
...gloomy theatre, the littered coffee cups, the shouting stagehands, the bedevilled director, I have come home. It has been a startling change, very like a brief return from the wars. My wife and my boys, whose existence I have almost forgotten . . . are waiting for me, gay, dressed in holiday clothes, and looking to me marvellously attractive. We have sat down to a splendid dinner, at a table graced with flowers and the old Sabbath symbols: the burning candles, the twisted loaves, the stuffed fish, and my grandfather's silver goblet brimming with wine. I have blessed my boys with...
...compete against consumers and small business for available funds in the short-term market. Last week the Treasury's borrowing costs for short-term money rose to 3.979%, up from the 3.889% paid four days earlier, and the highest since the 4.25% paid during the bank holiday...
...Government and corporate securities. Even as President Eisenhower drafted a special message urging Congress to lift the 4¼% interest-rate ceiling on long-term Government bonds, the Treasury announced that it had to pay 3.824% interest on short-term (91-day) bills, the highest since the bank holiday of March...
...Scapegoat is a frayed, middle-aging English professor (Alec Guinness) who goes on a holiday in France with nothing to declare but a hollow in the heart. He no sooner suggests that "a man has to be empty before he can be used" than he has a chance encounter with a decadent French count (Alec Guinness) whom he strikingly resembles. The professor is tricked into assuming the Frenchman's identity, along with a down-at-the-plumbing Loire chateau crammed with impressive horrors: the count's plaintive wife (Irene Worth), who fears for her life because...