Word: week-ends
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General Hugh S. Johnson's disposition was made no sweeter because he had to spend the week-end in Washington's Walter Reed Hospital having an abscess treated. But the abscess that troubled his flesh was less sore than a flock of boils which last week broke out on the hide...
...Consul Kuramoto was carrying the Minister's bags. There seemed to be no room for the vice consul in the limousine which took Minister Ariyoshi to Nanking Station to join dozens of Chinese government officials and prosperous Nanking merchants waiting for the most popular train in China, the week-end express to Shanghai. Vice Consul Kuramoto signalled a jinrikisha, stepped in, and that was the last anyone saw of him for five days...
...present method of initiation into the higher realms of scholarship, employing the adviser who has only over one week-end to formulate programs for some twenty-odd men is rather obviously insufficient. Not even the most able land conscientious man can correctly estimate the ability of so many men in so short a time while the recluse greybeards inhabiting the Law School and the Semitic Museum possess such a remarkable lack of knowledge of their job that they do not even get to bat. Even older men who are in constant communication with the undergraduate department in their own fields...
...only must the son be gently but firmly extracted from his unfortunate affair, but the mother wishes to marry herself to an old flame, now become a distinguished musician. Both ends are realized, and her majesty the widow emerges triumphant from a strenuous week-end of genuinely amusing situations...
Important members of the New York Stock Exchange have been going to Washington quite frequently in the last two years. One day last week Washington went to the Stock Exchange. On a self-financed week-end junket "to inspect the different things in New York we Legislators are legislating about," 100 Congressmen & wives trooped into the visitors' gallery, eyed the brokers' antics with astonishment. President Richard Whitney tried to explain what was going on but the junketing Congressmen soon left to see 90 tons of gold in the Federal Reserve vaults, to visit Ellis Island on fireboats...