Sentence examples for half holiday from inspiring English sources
The first great cartoon character in the UK was Ally Sloper, a dissolute Victorian who starred in his own magazine, Ally Sloper's Half Holiday.
Monday afternoon (at 5) I went canoeing with Dorothy and Tuesday and yesterday we played tennis and today is my half holiday...
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NEW YORK — Wall Street wore its usual midsummer half-holiday aspect to-day [July 26].
TRANSPORTATION Metro-North trains operate on a special half-holiday schedule (shown in the timetable now in effect).
They're checking in via email, writing year-end reports in their flannel jammies at home, not really clocking out during this half-holiday week.
Long Island Rail Road trains operate on a holiday schedule, and Metro-North trains operate on a special half-holiday schedule (shown in the timetable now in effect).
"It's sort of a half-holiday mentality in the equity markets," said Ronald J. Hill, investment strategist at Brown Brothers Harriman & Company.
I was 14 and at my school one of the more intellectual sixth-formers had started a petition asking for us to be granted a half-holiday in remembrance of the passing of "this great British writer".
On the other hand, the vast range of locales and events visited by Ally and his motley band of companions serves to give us a sense of the types of places the varied readership of Ally Sloper's Half-Holiday (ASHH) may have visited in search of leisure.
A regular feature of Ally Sloper's Half-Holiday, an illustrated comic newspaper published from 1884 until 1923 though sporadically after 1916, is Ally Sloper's travels in and around London and to the seaside.1 Ally's journeys and their chronicling by his daughter Tootsie serve as kind of travel literature for the working-class and lower-middle-class readership of the paper.
