Word: confetti
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Alumni will congregate in the Stadium Thursday afternoon for the exercises which, during the war, consisted of military reviews, but which had formerly involved the gentle sport of throwing confetti at the graduating class after the delivery of the Ivy Oration...
...TIME sees no injustice in its report that the widespread recognition of Bela Bartok's work was belated. As for famed Violinist Szigeti, how about confetti...
...Continent's poverty also served better than centuries of papal scolding to subdue the pre-Lenten orgies of Carnival. Fun-loving Italians, hungry or not, could not resist their first chance for many years to don strange hats and masks, plunge into a sea of confetti. But Germany's famed Faschings at Cologne and Munich were canceled. Said a Munich city official: "Fasching needs a carefree spirit and abundance; today there is an abundance of tears, worry and rubble...
Along Fifth Avenue the crowds were thick-not as thick as they had been for Generals Eisenhower and Wainwright and for Admiral Nimitz, but good, sizable, cheering, confetti-throwing crowds...
...Lord Halifax came to the Big Powers' defense. "These documents," said he, "represent the highest point of agreement among the Big Five and they cannot be further modified." Barked Connally to the objectors: "Do you want to tear up the charter?" To emphasize the point Connally tore to confetti some papers in front...