Word: week-ends
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...action of the play takes place in the country home of Lady Wyngate, a short distance from London. Gathered there for the proverbial stage week-end are Rand Eldridge, noted Antarctic explorer and young lover of his hostess, his brother Hobart, an American capitalist interested in organizing Fascist youth movements, his doll-like wife, Phoebe, her daughter Joan, and her flance, Clendon Wyatt, a Rhodes scholar. Huge Willens, a German music critic, recently released from a concentration camp for having a Jewish great-grandmother, and Nikolai Jurin, a Russian emigre...
Buenos Aires, Nov. 30--Paraguayan forces massed tonight for a smashing week-end offensive along the western sector of the Gran Chaco border war with Bolivia in a desperate drive to end the hostilities which have kept South America in turmoil for three years. Bolivia's rich oil fields were threatened...
...Over the week-end King Leopold sent for choleric Colonel Georges ("Red Head"*) Theunis, negotiator of Belgium's debt settlement with the U. S. in 1925. Now a ranking Belgian elder statesman, former Premier Theunis emerged from retirement with reluctance. "The task is not simple," said he, "but I will do my best." His best, completed after three days, included M. Francqui as Minister Without Portfolio...
...through the ranks, went to Congress in 1913, headed Tammany's delegation in the House for years. There he was a member of the potent Ways & Means Committee, a close crony of Nicholas Longworth and John Nance Garner. A devout Catholic and devoted family man, he spent every week-end in Manhattan in his brownstone house on East 68th Street near Third Avenue. His Congressional career ended in 1929 when Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed him to New York's Supreme Court...
...Changing to their uniforms on the train, the members will be transferred at the New Haven station to special busses which will take them straight to the Yale Bowl. There will be no restrictions to keep members from going on to New York to spend the rest of the week-end...