Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After all, "nothing, not even a blizzard will stop the Irish," declares Daniel M. O'Sullivan, originator of a state legislature bill to make St. Patrick's Day a legal holiday. Blizzard and all, 50,000 wearers of the Green are expected to slosh through South Boston streets at 2 this afternoon, in honor of their patron saint...
...great day for the Irish yesterday as the State House of Representatives adopted a bill to make St. Patrick's Day a legal holiday...
...holiday, to be called "March 17," will provide for a joint celebration of St. Patrick's and Evacuation Day, which commemorates the British withdrawal from Boston during the Revolution. It would be observed by a closing of stores and public offices...
...only place their children can get a first rate education. But many others do not, and it seems inevitable that a substantial tuition hike will throw the balance even more heavily in favor of State U. for the student from the provinces, still unconvinced by accolades in Holiday...
...students and residents of the town wearily slogged through an unusually snowy winter, impatience with continually slushy streets grew stronger and stronger. Some blamed atomic explosions for disrupting the weather. Others felt that either Senator Bridges or the lack of a decent winter holiday had something to do with the general discomfort. Many, however, seemed to think that Mayor Sullivan might have provided snowplows. At any rate, pussy willows are being sold along Mass. Ave., and the trial by wet ankles is obviously over. As galoshes are put away for another occasion, a few may be willing to agree with...