Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...birth of Mary Jean seemed to be for the President the most joyous event of the year. She drew him back from Gettysburg to the White House a day earlier than planned; she dominated the traditional holiday reception the next morning for the 700 members of the White House staff. Accompanied by Mamie Eisenhower, in a Christmas-red wool jersey dress, the President accepted congratulations beneath an 18-ft. spruce Christmas tree decorated with silver tinsel and electric candles. Everyone at the reception got a Christmas present from the new grandfather: a print of an oil painting that the President...
...Bilgray never even tried to get away. He became, instead, the best-known saloonkeeper in Caribbean latitudes, the boss of Colón's far-famed Tropic Bar and Restaurant. This New Year's, Bilgray's customers will as usual wrap their hands around their holiday glasses of whisky in the bar on the narrow street Colón calls Bottle Alley, but Bilgray will not be leaning approvingly over his corner table. At 70, in failing health, Max Bilgray has sold...
...government sternly banned politicking-but cooperated wholeheartedly in staging a public holiday Mass in Buenos Aires' Plaza de Mayo, facing Government House. Result: one of the biggest throngs in the plaza's history-150,000-calmly gathered and calmly went away, leaving the church-state issue just where Aramburu wanted it: deftly deferred...
Aside from the patent absurdity of considering classes the prime feature of a university, and the sheer impracticability of any preventative measure having to do with anyone in the true holiday spirit, there is another, more pertinent objection to these measures, whatever scandalous form they may take. One wonders what will become of the geographical distributee, the Southern or Western wanderer who must traverse great distances to reach his festive home. For, unless the University allows students more holiday time before Christmas than it has of late, the young gentleman from the hinterlands would be hard put to reach home...
Obviously, any preventive system, no matter what its nature, would lead to the development of a whole new set of institutions at Harvard. With hordes of National Scholars and other western wonders remaining in Cambridge throughout the holidays, the University would be obliged to provide them some sort of entertainment. President Pusey would have to throw a party in Widener, followed by a sleigh-ride through the Yard. The IAB pool would stand awash with hot-buttered rum, and Memorial Hall would become a Yule log. Arthur Darby Nock would stroll along Mass. Ave. in a red suit roaring boistrous...