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Word: carnivaleers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Trains bound for New Orleans carried many an extra coach last week. Steamships had full lists. Air passengers coasting down toward the city at twilight saw its bright crescent glittering with extraordinary brilliance. Mississippi Valley farmers, fun-hunters from the North, socialites from the South, soldiers, sailors, beggars, gamblers, sportsmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Momus, Comus & Rex | 2/15/1932 | See Source »

One of the oldest (106) and most famed of U. S. civic celebrations. New Orleans' Mardi Gras Carnival is for local socialites a formal, exclusive occasion; for merchants and hotelmen, a golden harvest; for visitors and the man-in-the-street one good long party. Last week's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Momus, Comus & Rex | 2/15/1932 | See Source »

And yesterday the rumors began, and with the rumors much verifiable fact. It has long been more than a suspicion among alert Dartmouth men that a large proportion of the disorderly occurrences that have caused the fair name of Dartmouth to look less fair to estimable matrons in authority at...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 2/11/1932 | See Source »

While out esteem for the students of Yale, Harvard, Williams and Princeton masse is second to none, we have succeeded in authoritatively tracing not a few of the irresponsible occurrences which yearly seem inevitable at Carnival to gentlemen, so called, from these institutions. To these specific visitors who might more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 2/11/1932 | See Source »

On the second day of the annual winter track carnival held on Soldiers Field yesterday, 48 students; lettermen, inexperienced freshmen, and graduate students vied for honors in the few events which were run off. Only the distance runs, pole vault, and hammer throw were held as bad weather necessitated the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TRACK CARNIVAL RUNS OFF EVENTS IN POOR WEATHER | 2/11/1932 | See Source »

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