Word: fete
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...leading of the New York Symphony Orchestra-through the first U. S. performance of Ernest Halffter's Sinfonietta and his own orchestral transcription of Albeniz's La Fete de Dieu a Seville and Triana-was graceful, gentle & genteel...
...greet Kemal all Constantinople was en fete. Fifty thousand electric bulbs were festooned along the streets and from the minarets of Stamboul.* Even at Pera† the Diplomatic Corps and foreigners generally decked their establishments, in honor of Kemal. He came, at last, steaming up the Bosporus on a cream white yacht, once the Sultan's. Twelve large and forty small steamers followed. Turkish gunboats blazed salutes. The whole city rang with Kemal's nickname of honor: "Ghazi," "The Victorious...
...seas became swaying mountains. Fascismo is brave but not foolhardy. If one should have to land now, all glory would be drowned. Commander De Pinedo swung back to Fernando Noronha to spend the night. A rough landing necessitated minor repairs but next day Port Natal turned out to fete him, then Pernambuco further down the coast, then Rio de Janiero. Back over the ocean, in Italy, an excitable press and populace rejoiced that a Fascist, "a messenger of Italianity," had duplicated the feat first performed in 1926 by the Spaniard, Ramon Franco...
...Tokyo, Prince Regent Hirohito, who has ruled in his father's stead since 1921, presided over the chrysanthemum fete with his wife, the Crown Princess Nagako. He and his three brothers are strapping sportsmen, know not infirmities...
General Nobile (about to leave the Ritz-Carlton in Manhattan for a fete in Pittsburgh): "As captain of the airship, every person on board depended on me during the flight. Riiser-Larsen, second in command of the airship, was appointed navigator by me. . . . During the entire flight of 71 hours I acted all the time as captain of the airship, giving orders to every one, controlling what everybody was doing...