Word: fete
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Snow caused last week to be designated a National Social Hygiene fete, got scores of meetings organized, got his old friend Dr. Wilbur (now president of the American Social Hygiene Association), and his newer friend Dr. Parran to make speeches for electrical transmission by dozens of radio stations which at last permitted discussion of the subject...
...knew that the Beaux-Arts had made history this year. It was back on Broad way after a nostalgic period at the Waldorf-Astoria. For the first time an outsider had furnished the decorations, seven rayon companies having paid heavily for the privilege of advertising the ball as a Fete de Rayon Fantastique. And into the coffers of the Beaux-Arts Institute to educate young U. S. architects would go the proceeds from 2,000 tickets sold at $10 apiece...
...unexpected guest in 1923 at a Versailles fete which raised only $5,000 to restore the French Bourbon kings' crumbling Versailles and Trianon palaces, John D. Rockefeller Jr. was shocked by their state of decay, gave the Comité $1,000,000. His workmen did a thorough Rockefeller job of repair. Later Mr. Rockefeller gave $2,080,000 more, some of it to restore the War-shelled Cathedral of Reims and to put the château of Fontainebleau in shape...
Lunch will be served in the Houses after which the parade will form for the Stadium where they will be met by the welcoming cheers. Roy W. Winsauer '36, will start the fete there with the Ivy Oration, and it will be finished by the singing of Fair Harvard and the confetti batle...
...Carol and his red-headed Magda Lupescu made a sentimental journey to the suburban château where for more than four years they lived in exile (TIME, June 16, 1930). Taking the Blue Train to Nice, they were up until dawn, dancing in the streets at a city fete. Next day His Majesty, 42, motored out to the villa of famed Dr. Serge Voronoff, monkey-gland rejuvenator...