bank holiday

And so he did, proclaiming a four-day bank holiday on March 7.

In the early morning hours of Tuesday, March 7, FDR proclaimed a four day bank holiday.

Indeed, it made me understand for the first time that even a Bank Holiday need not be a day of wrath and mourning.

The contractors were under time-penalties to be ready for the formal opening on the forthcoming August Bank Holiday.

Sunday is with them only a regularly recurring Bank Holiday.

Bank Holiday courtship (if the inappropriate word can be pardoned) seems to be done, in real life, entirely by banter.

It makes me sick to think of having to trust to an accident like that, like a lubberly cockney out for a boozy Bank Holiday sail.