Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Frederick C. Packard, associate professor of Public Speaking, and a tape recorder. For the rest of the College, finals will not start for another two weeks, until Wednesday, May 25. They will continue then for two weeks, ending on June 7. Memorial Day, on May 30, will be a holiday...
...Picasso during a 1917 visit to Barcelona. It was an event the family is not likely to forget. Uncle Pablo rode into town with the Diaghilev Ballet Russe, promptly abducted Ballet Dancer Olga Koklova (whom he later married), set up house in Barcelona's Hotel Rancini. In a holiday mood, Picasso began turning out canvases in a bewildering variety of styles: a balcony view of Barcelona's Christopher Columbus column; a painting of a Spanish dancer lush enough to hang in a bullfighter's dressing room. Well into his cubist period at the time...
...Called off his press conference and packed to leave for a ten-day holiday in Augusta...
...indigestion caused by the dinners. He lunched on successive days with leaders of the House and of the Senate, both Democrats and Republicans. For the Representatives there was quail hash (from birds sent to Ike by Georgians who were disturbed because he bagged only two on his February hunting holiday there) and for the Senators there was roast pheasant. For both there was a precisely detailed review of the U.S. position in the world by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and a restatement of aim by the President. Said he: "God knows, nobody in the world wants peace more...
...drama about a thirtyish spinster who gets her last chance at a sad-eyed, vintage bachelor (Edward Andrews). Their hesitant, tongue-tied courtship contained perhaps too many pregnant pauses and awkward gropings for words, but even though the drama bore a considerable resemblance to Paddy Chayefsky's Holiday Song of several years ago, it achieved the agonizing ache and flowering fulfillment of the loveless who finally find love...