Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...summer travel season was coming to an end, but a lot of people were still wingdinging around the world. After dining with Cinemactor Rossano (Summertime) Brazzi, Margaret Truman wound up a ten-day Roman holiday by taking the Paris Express for London, where Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. will put her up.' Accompanied by his wife and two law partners, former Governor of New York Thomas E. Dewey took off on a monthlong, "entirely personal" air trip around the world, during which he will visit twelve countries. Cruising from port to port in the Mediterranean aboard Shipping Magnate Aristotle Onassis...
This exception to the usual application arrangement applies to the UMass game only and comes as the result of the Yom Kippur holiday on Monday. Frank O. Lunden, H.A.A. manager, will give the late applicants "the best seats we can," although he said he will be unable to seat them in their regular class priority seats...
...this reference Hunt's scholarship is off in several directions. John Gilpin was the hero of a poem by William Cowper (1731-1800). Gilpin went off in just two directions-north and south. A wealthy London draper, he sent his wife off in a chaise for a holiday in Edmonton, eight miles to the north, and agreed to follow on horseback. But he galloped right through Edmonton to Ware, nearly 15 miles beyond. Then he turned around and headed for Edmonton again, but once more he rushed through the town and ultimately arrived safely in London, where his travels...
...Vienna Holiday (Michel Legrand and his orchestra; Columbia LP). The eerie shimmer of the opening bars sounds like trance music in the movies, gives a hint of the nightmare to follow: tricky "improvements" on Strauss waltzes and other Viennese music. French Conductor Legrand painfully paralyzes the originals' lilting three-quarter time till the music sounds every bit as insipid as French popular music itself. A major atrocity that should cause Vienna to break diplomatic relations with Paris...
...Y.M.C.A. movement are almost as diverse as its 4,242,819 world members. It employs 5,704 full-time professional secretaries (the term for Y.M.C.A. local administrative officers), operates 8,360 headquarters buildings, 247 armed services centers, 186 industrial workers' centers, 89 refugee camp associations, 252 holiday hostels, 72 summer camps, and scores of schools and colleges. In almost every corner of the world people are familiar with its escutcheon, a red triangle whose sides symbolize the association's three concerns: spirit, mind and body...