Word: weekending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Taxed but far from exhausted by two weeks of day-night vigil, the President journeyed to Hyde Park for a weekend rest. With his mother he drove through the rain to St. James Episcopal Church at Hyde Park, where he heard the Rev. Frank R. Wilson denounce Adolf Hitler, read from the Old Testament (Habakkuk, 2:8): ". . . Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the people shall spoil thee...
...most U. S. newspaper readers, yacht racing last week was as inconsequential as a split infinitive. But for the slow-stirring, world-apart folk on Maryland's Eastern Shore, the Comet Class championship regatta, held on Chesapeake Bay, wrote the most exciting headlines of last weekend. For the Comet (originally christened Crab) is the family-tree-conscious Eastern Shore's own baby...
...sent home when he arrived at his billet. On his clothes was sewn his name and address. A Mr. Brown's four children, aged 4 to 11, marched with their names printed in big letters on their backs. From London and 28 other cities, all through last weekend and this week, the greatest mass evacuation in Britain's history went on. Some children were grave-faced. Some, like their mothers who had come along to say goodby, wept. But most were elated by their adventure. They stamped and sang and danced the Lambeth Walk as they waited for their trains...
...time the German juggernaut rolled, it went through Luxembourg, the tiny (999 sq. mi.) independent duchy tucked in between Belgium and France on the German border. Last week Luxembourg's ruler, Grand Duchess Charlotte, 43, was at home, with Europe shaking around her. At the White House as weekend guests (she has no Washington embassy) arrived her husband, sporting Prince Consort Felix, and their son. Prince Jean, 19. Besides wild boars, a favorite hobby of Prince Felix is the big Luxembourg radio station (strongest west of Moscow) and which, should the juggernaut roll again, would surely be extracted...
...could see him. About Arch Oboler are many unmistakable marks of genius. His inspiration is the music of the masters; amid the correct mufti of staid Radio City he sports Hollywood-style polo shirts, violent jackets, unpressed bags; in his atelier he kept a pet horned toad until last weekend it died after overdoing a diet of worms...