Word: weekending
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Finance Minister Hilferding did not survive this second upset. Over the weekend he resigned, took with him his right hand man, State Secretary Johannes Popitz. President Paul von Hindenburg scratched his grizzled poll, appointed Minister of Economics Paul Moldenhauer to be Temporary. Minister of Finance...
...refused the invitation to the mountains; I corrected two hundred papers over the weekend, themes, grammar tests, and spelling. When I returned them to the morning class, 'Brick' chucked his into the wastebasket with a 'Gee, somebody spilled the red ink!' How to make them care! . . . Miss Skelton teaches chemistry; she is a faithful worker for the Y. W. C. A. Mr. Mince tips his hat to her every morning; I've seen her flush at his audacity. Sometime I'm going to lock them in the Study Hall and compromise them...
...wife. Said he: "How are you fixed for grub? ... Er ... you'll excuse me. this is Mrs, Lindbergh-it's for her." Later the Lindberghs and hosts explored cliff-dwelling ruins to which Lindbergh led the way, having discovered from, the air a hitherto unknown path. Last weekend Col. Lindbergh paid a visit to Professor Robert Hutchings Goddard of Clark University (Worcester, Mass.) to learn more about high altitude rocket experiments (TIME. July 29). Said Informaniac Walter Winchell in the New York Mirror: "Of course it will be vigorously denied, but the Col. Chas. A. Lindberghs (Anne Morrow...
Indian Summer weather (temp. 83°) sent President Hoover and 19 weekend guests to his Shenandoah National Park camp, hastily reopened. Chilly rain drove them back to the White House for Sunday night supper and music...
There are no cars at Michigan, and Detroit is over 40 miles away, so there are parties galore within walking distance. Every weekend some one of the important fraternities gives a party; during the football season, there are innumerable social functions which may be more aptly described as brawls. For the games the fraternity houses decorate their buildings in every way imaginable: today there is a contest between the fraternities to see which can put up the gayest decorations. There are to be slices of yellow and blue; there are to be slices of brilliant crimson: and there...