Word: weekending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While the debate went on, many Britons, even among those who affect not to care a fig whether the young Princess marries her airman or not, found themselves caught up in it: they professed themselves sated with it, but they could not escape it. Like polite weekend guests unwillingly trapped in a family quarrel, they could not choose but hear. As the week wore on, the young Princess fulfilled her royal functions, well-armed in the impassive mask of dignity that is royalty's required uniform. In tiara and strapless pink and white gown, she helped her sister...
...Damn right," said a vice president of a major New York book-publishing firm, leaning against the rough oak mantelpiece. "Boy, we even had him out for a, weekend last spring. He kept smashing his martini glasses into the pool. It wasn't safe to go swimming for days...
Annex girls, as a rule, rarely go to another college for a weekend. For the most part, they are content to stay at Harvard and cheer for the College football team, unless they are in a particularly foul humor or madly in love with some Yale student. Anyway, as one girl said, the average Cliffdweller is basically much too lazy to pack up and take off for a whole weekend. The so-called unfeminine aspects of Radcliffe girls--green book bags and Knee socks, for instance--are actually a defense mechanism against the strain of looking beautiful all the time...
Most inappropriately for this weekend, Boston Jazz has nearly forgotten the Tiger Rag. It has passed beyond the traditional stage of Benny Goodman and Arty Shaw, discarded Old Dixie, and is approaching the cooler, intellectual cock-tail jazz of Dave Brubeck and Lee Konitz. The Princeton cats may be disappointed...
Mahogany Hall, reminiscent of the New Orleans "barrelhouses" where they poured liquor from barrels, is strictly a weekend stop. Its usual attraction, the Dukes of Dixie, often described as a "great big bundle of noise", offer the Chicago type of jam session in a room filled with plenty of smoke and customers trying to prove they are not freshmen...