Word: confetti
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...Main Street took him to Louisville, Ky. It rained, confetti as well as water. He proclaimed Prosperity once more...
More than a rack of test-tubes ? a retort! Seething humanity smothered the Derby. Confetti and torn telephone books snowed. A placard and its prancing bearers proclaimed: "Remember November sixth ? beer!" The swarms of children grew prodigious. Cautioningly, anxiously now the Derby waved. One child run down would cost thousands of votes, perhaps millions. Yet swarming imps were every where, all yelling and grinning, a few tying to the Derby's car tin cans which other imps snatched off, pummeling the tin-cantiers...
...doesn't look for reason in a parade, just as one doesn't look for rhyme in a campaign song. The seeker after truth who inquires here for that which above all things beareth away the victory must ask of the winds which far around with fragments of confetti and cottonballs strewed the streets...
...George Hubert Wilkins and Lieut. Carl B. Eilson, polar pilgrims, stood on the deck of the Stavangerfjord, saw the freshly-pressed cutaway of Grover A. Whalen aboard the Macom, knew they were about to receive one of Manhattan's famed, confetti-laden Official Welcomes...
...clock--Stadium exercises: Ivy oration, E. F. Clark '28; confetti battle...