Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...school, masters and all. Then he sacked the matron ("She's a bit of a stinker, it seems"). After that, he gave the headmaster a terrific wigging for overworking the boys. To top it all off, he said he was going to declare an extra day's holiday around Christmas. "What a rogue," said the boys of the fifth form. Old Bumblie could certainly play the toff...
Undergraduates at Yale University have just celebrated their last four-day Thanksgiving vacation. A recently announced schedule revision will reduce this holiday to a one-day recess next fall, and will also bring these major changes in the academic year at New Haven...
...spectacular of the week starred Steve Allen, Judy Holliday and France's top pantomimist Jacques Tati, who played the Chaplinesque lead in the movie Mr. Hulot's Holiday (TIME, July 5). Tati was the hit of the show in a brief series of vignettes (a determined tennis player, a fumbling fisherman, a cowardly boxer, a prancing circus horse and rider) that showed off a remarkably agile and expressive 6-ft. 4-in. body. The week's second big color feature, Cole Porter's Panama Hattie (CBS), boasted Ethel Merman, but even Trouper Merman could not keep...
With Minute Maid booming, Morse lost no time exploring other fields. National Research went into instant coffee (Holiday Brands, Inc..) and antibiotic drugs, now produces 90% of the drying equipment used by U.S. penicillin makers. For the electronics industry National Research developed high-vacuum machines for TV and radar-tube production...
Thankful for the fortunate placing of Armistice Day in the middle of November Hours, members of the 14 Plympton St. institution plan to take advantage of the holiday by stopping the presses for a day, and repairing to their rooms to sleep. Presses roll again late Thursday in time to print for Friday...