Word: week-ends
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...evident that the persons who think that a Chinaman can not do the "baggage lugging, berth boosting, window opening" task of a Negro Pullman Porter is badly mistaken and can learn a lot about the strength and endurance of a Chinaman, by spending a week-end** out here amongst them...
...usual plan is for a team of three or four men to go out together over a week-end. During this time they take charge of meetings, give talks, and attempt to meet as many people as possible. All expenses are paid, and accommodations provided by the place visited...
This year 30 different men have taken part in nine deputations. These trips included: five church deputations, extended over the week-end; three preparatory school deputations, two for the week-end, one for a single evening; one deputation to a Y. M. C. A. banquet...
Banker W. J. Johnson, of Chicago, has a $12,000 biplane. "The only use to which I put my ship," he says, "is pleasure. Instead of taking my wife and seven-year-old son for a short week-end trip in the car, as I used to do, we now climb aboard the ship and take a regular trip. On my vacation we went to California...
...side by side on its top rail and aimlessly while away the time between classes. The old beer shops, where all gathered Saturday night for an evening of good fellowship, are but a sacred memory. In their place have come movies, cars, and wholesale migrations known as the "week-end exodus". The last common meeting place to withstand the pressure of progress was compulsory chapel, and at last, mirabile dictu, even this has been abolished. With no time or place for informal contacts and general discussions, there is at present little opportunity for the formation of public opinion...