Word: vacationer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What with the heat and all the steamy oratory, Congress was beginning to get that old feeling again. Congress had been hard at it for nearly eight months, and by Congress' own rules the Senators and Representatives were supposed to get five months' paid vacation a year. The...
There were also "the girls." Earnest, gregarious, romantic, thousands of Jewish and Italian girls swarmed into the shops. Huddled in crowded misery that was unlike the village life they had known, they seized on the union for social contacts, and demanded of it the better life America had promised. A...
One sunny afternoon last week, the Communists staged a rally of 2,000 strikers at Kemi. A sound-truck of the Finnish-Russian Friendship Society blared: "Come on, boys, let's go and throw out the cops!" The boys went at the police barricade, hurled insults, sticks & stones. The...
On his summer vacation from prep school, Harold Lloyd Jr., 17, got a one-picture job acting for Sam Goldwyn. His role: a non-comic high-school boy. Already working in Hollywood, John Barrymore Jr., 17, got a look at his profile in the rushes of his first movie. Marveled...
Last week, Negishi was in jail and Mrs. Negishi was still longing in vain for a vacation in the country.