Word: holiday
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...breaking out of their eight months' hibernation. Dog sledges had started making caches for way stations along his route to the Pole. His two planes had endured the winter well in their snow houses. Mechanics were going over them. The men were working hard but they had a holiday coming to them. On Oct. 25 they would pause to celebrate Commander Byrd's 41 st birthday...
...remember the hops, the big holiday dinners, the eating "at ease", the carefree feeling that creeps over one, the heavy boxes from home, the Christmas tree in the mess hall, and other things. But, I certainly cannot forget the terrible silence at the first meal to which the other three classes returned. That ominous silence meant that there were five more months till Graduation...
...Kippur (Day of Atonement), Jewish holiday, vigil of fasting and repentance. Oct. 15-Patrick Joseph Cardinal Hayes leaves New York on yacht lamara for two-month European cruise...
...Already jubilant over these signs of prosperity, railroad men heard with interest last week that a non-railroad man was working on an experiment which might materially lessen operating costs. The experiment was a Timken Tapered Roller Bearing-equipped locomotive. The experimenter was Henry Holiday Timken...
...Careless Age (First National). Masked by the fatuous title-on the stage Diversion, a play by John Van Druten-is a compact and legitimately dramatic study of adolescent love. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. acts a young medical student, ambitious son of a London doctor, who on a holiday meets an experienced and beautiful woman of light fancy. Back in London she tires of her caprice, and his infatuation increases in direct ratio to her boredom until one night when he finds her with one of her other friends he goes temporarily crazy and strangles her. The irony of this denouement...