Word: weekending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reporting on a family weekend at Hyde Park, Columnist Eleanor Roosevelt last week wrote in My Day: "After lunch yesterday my brother [Gracie Hall Roosevelt] wanted to go over to look at a barn which the President is interested in changing into a house. As usual, the President thinks it can be done far more economically than the rest of us do. I was glad to have my brother bear me out, but our combined arguments had no effect on the President, who said cheerfully: 'Well, we will wait and see,' with the calm conviction that he could...
Appointed last May to be the successor of Archibald MacLeish an Curator of the Nieman Collection of Contemporary Journalism, Louis M. Lyons, Nieman Fellow from the Boston Globe last year, launched the 1939-40 season of the Fellowships during the past weekend with a series of dinner meetings and personal conferences with the 12 newspapermen chosen by the University to be Nieman Follows for the coming year...
...greatest salesman since Barnum turned up this weekend in the form of an enterprising Sophomore who sold memberships in the Harvard Varsity Club to an unknown number of Freshmen for the piddling sum of one dollar...
This morning the Varsity will hold its final weekend drill, and will be given the afternoon off. Monday the team will resume regular practice but the morning session will be discontinued...
...half-hearted attempts to make the film a character study also help in hindering the force of the story. One redeeming feature, however, is the acting. Ralph Richardson and C. Aubrey Smith both turn in splendid performances. But their efforts, though valiant, fail to stifle at the University this weekend...