Word: weekend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chain Reaction. In Beverly Hills, Mo., the Leslie Whites had a loud weekend: first, a quart jar of gooseberry preserves blew up; next, three cans of date pudding; finally, a gallon jug of gasoline, which touched off a hundred 12-gauge shotgun shells, a thousand .22 cartridges...
Invitation to Learning (Sun. 12 noon, CBS). Authors Charles Jackson (The Lost Weekend) and Dorothy Parker pick apart Sinclair Lewis' Main Street...
...first reunion since 1942, and the largest in her 200 years; 10,000 alumni from 52 classes were singing Going Back to Nassau Hall. Tired businessmen, bankers, lawyers and bond salesmen joyfully shucked off their Brooks Brothers' pinstripes and climbed into silly Mardi Gras costumes for a lost weekend. For four days Mayor Minot Morgan Jr., '35 and the police of little Princeton borough (pop. 7,719) were as busy as if the Legion had come to town...
...rade. All the solemnity, the boisterousness, the pride and the sentimentality were wrapped up together in the weekend's grand "P-rade." Two miles of sign-swinging Princeton men, paced by 32 military bands, wound in & out of the campus to University Field. At their head was orange-bereted Marshal Melville Dickenson, portlier now than when he captained Princeton's undefeated 1922 football team. Round University Field the alumni marched in review-past President Harold Dodds and a handful of pre-1896 Tigers (their joints no longer limber enough for P-rading.) Then everybody sang Old Nassau...
...undersigned was . . . apprehended for speeding. It was Saturday afternoon and the judge . . . was not in the city for the weekend so . . . I wrote a letter to the judge and he fixed bail at $15. Whereupon I wrote another letter and quoted the above axiom and he raised the bail...