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Word: holiday (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...excessively ugly, good-humored and unambitious Peregrine ("Pithecanthropus") Smith, on a fortnight's pedestrian holiday from his police duties, meets up with an aggressive young Scottish engineer. They set out to cross Dukesmoor together in a thick fog. From the window of the moorland house a face watches them menacingly. Through the fog comes faintly the tolling of a bell-a convict has escaped! At Oakmere Pool lies the dead body of a man, stripped to his underclothes. . . . Thus this thriller, in the somewhat old-fashioned English manner: plenty of atmosphere and a well-defined trail, with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murder! | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

...more U. S. civilians abroad than ever before. From countless U. S. homes this month have gone forth Christmas boxes and bundles to countless far-flung civilian Jacks. Toms, Ikes, Petes. The year had been generous at home but many a son could not be present to share its holiday rewards. When other U. S. citizens were turning homeward for the year's greatest family celebration, Jack was converting heathen on Luzon, Tom was selling Standard Oil up the Yangtze, Ike was with National City Bank at Bombay, Pete was peddling vacuum cleaners out of Stockholm?all manifesting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Montezuma, Tripoli & Beyond | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

...have only one or two classes before the week-end. It will be hardly reasonable to expect men to return next year for Saturday classes when January 2 falls on a Friday. The benefit of the single class cannot offset the benefit of two extra day's holiday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BACK TO CAMBRIDGE | 12/20/1929 | See Source »

...means one thing in Boston and another in Hamilton, if it means one thing to the man in the pulpit and another to the man in the street, it at least means something to them all. That, perhaps, is more than can be said of any other holiday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 12/20/1929 | See Source »

This afternoon, at 3 o'clock, in the Phillips Brooks House there will be a party for Cambridge boys. This is one of a series of Christmas entertainments being given during the holiday season under the auspices of the Phillips Brooks House Association...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BROOKS HOUSE SPONSORS CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION | 12/17/1929 | See Source »

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