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Word: fests (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...start this gloriously glamorous, lucidly alluring fun fest any time, preferably with the first installment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMING SOON | 1/7/1938 | See Source »

Food & Fun. On their second night at Atlantic City the Governors frolicked at a big "Circus Fun-Fest" in the Hotel Traymore's main dining room, which was decorated like a circus tent, overrun with clowns, fake policemen, a menagerie of men in animal skins and three brass bands. All guests sported gaudy paper hats and the Governors wore huge paper-plate buttons identifying them as their State's "big shot" (see cut). Connecticut's 75-year-old Wilbur ("Uncle Toby") Cross beamed on a pretty "gypsy girl," who escorted a "polar bear" on a leash. When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Governors' Party | 9/27/1937 | See Source »

...Have Our Moments", the fun-fest alluded to above, shows the other side of life, with James Dunn and Sally Eilers co-starring in an international money smuggle that has dialogue that sparkles like champagne. And after outwitting an international gangster, who looks very much like a former head of the Chase Bank who shall go nameless, and a magnificent French detective, the two wind up in Monte Carlo, in each other's arms of course...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Moviegoer | 4/24/1937 | See Source »

Paced by Captain Bill Kendall of the Australian Olympic Team, and Eric Cutler of Noble and Greenough, the Freshman Swimming team slipped down the pool last Saturday evening to take away a 42-33 record-breaking splash-fest at the Indoor Athletic Building...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Swimmers Outsplash Yale to Bring Undefeated Season to a Finish | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

Sunday night in a long fest of bull with friends and a discussion (invoked by the hideous fact of our common servitude under Mr. Brinton in Intellectual History) of what is progress. Which tied us up in a thousand knots such as what is civilization what is man what is science what is anything. Some of us wanted to let it go at that and make up limericks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 1/19/1937 | See Source »

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