Word: confetti
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...blizzard of confetti, ticker tape and torn newspapers fell dizzily through the afternoon sun into Manhattan's Rockefeller Plaza. The crowd wept happily...
...head of the academic procession for the first time in more than 30 years was the late President Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell (TIME. Jan. 18). Missing, too, was the beribboned straw which, for an epoch, crowned the commencement head of John Pierpont Morgan '89. Gone was the traditional confetti battle between the seniors and their relatives and friends in Soldiers' Field. Gone was the reunion parade with its florid costumes, and the baseball game with Yale. No class tents were pitched in Harvard Yard, no lunches spread on the lawns. For music there was no traditional Harvard band...
Monterrey had known for five days that it was to have an important visitor. As Franklin Roosevelt rode through the pennant-bedecked streets, señoritas threw flowers and confetti from the balconies. That night, he and Avila Camacho sat down to a seven-course dinner. While Eleanor Roosevelt tried her newly learned Spanish on Señora Camacho, the two Presidents conversed through an interpreter. Then they rose to address their countries by radio. Their speeches were filled with Good Neighborliness, but nothing much else...
...first World War the spring vacation was not abolished, and Commencement and Class Day took place on their traditional days, with simplified ceremony. Last year's Class Day was stripped of its most colorful feature, the confetti battle and parade at Harvard Stadium, and 1943's final fling will also be shorn of its peacetime luxury...
Even last spring's commencement was hit by the war, as much of the elaborate and traditional celebration was shelved as incompatible with the war effort. Class Day and the famous confetti battle were among the casualities then...