Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sultan's power to Spain and a caliph in a ninth of the country. In Tetuan, tribesmen gathered last week in a vast assembly, ostensibly to "express gratitude" to their Spanish overseers. Instead, apparently with the foreknowledge of the Spaniards, the day was turned into a hate-France holiday...
...Roman Holiday. Newcomer Audrey Hepburn goes on a hilarious tour of Rome with Gregory Peck and Eddie Albert (TIME, Sept...
...that stretched out before Immigrant Balanchine, though it had never found a ballet tradition of its own, had seen quite a bit of imported dancing. When Vienna's famed Fanny Elssler danced in Washington nearly a century before, Congress declared itself a holiday. During World War I, Pavlova had packed Manhattan's Hippodrome (on a bill with elephants and Chinese jugglers), went on to make The Dying Swan a synonym for ballet across the nation. Nijinsky had toured the country in 1916, was already a legendary dancer...
...Roman Holiday. Newcomer Audrey Hepburn goes on a hilarious tour of Rome with Gregory Peck and Eddie Albert (TIME, Sept...
...automen said that Chrysler's 1954 models were not selling as well as expected. But Ford and General Motors still roared ahead, and total auto production jumped 66% from the previous week. Railroad traffic was still dropping and steel production was rising more slowly than expected after the holiday lull. Credit was still easing, and in Manhattan interest rates on commercial loans dropped to the lowest point (2 1/8) in three years. However, consumers showed no signs of easing up their big buying. Department store sales were climbing; they edged up 1% over the same week a year...