Word: fete
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President died, and nowhere could one buy raki, the anisette drink which Atatürk often guzzled for hours on end. Istanbul burst out with such a display of the red-with-white-crescent Turkish flags that although all were at half mast, they made the city look en fete instead of in grief, and the Government asked that all flags except those on public buildings be withdrawn...
...have been arrests for speeding, breaking photographers' cameras. In Paris, where he went the evening after the Battle of Flowers, Son John sought the diplomatic advice of his father's friend, Ambassador William C. Bullitt, then explained to the press that he had indeed attended the Cannes fete in a carriage put at his disposal by the proprietor of his hotel, but had not attacked the mayor, remembered nothing of the incident. Said he: ''I never met the mayor of Cannes. There were no speeches. I don't know anything about it. . . . It certainly must...
...never did any such thing at home and I can't imagine him doing any such thing abroad. If it happened. I am sure he didn't know the identity of the mayor. It is a perfectly understandable thing for any youngster to do, in such a fete, where everyone was throwing flowers and celebrating, if he didn't know who the mayor...
Last Sunday the Governor traveled to Philadelphia to see a fete on the Schuylkill River in which comic divers and aqua-pianists performed. He watched and grinned, then soberly declared: "Those clowns gave me my first laugh in two weeks...
...Pomp and Circumstance," MarchElgar *"Fete-Dieu a Seville" from "Iberia" Albeniz-Arbos *"Country Gardens" Grainger *"By the Beautiful Blue Danube," Waltzes Strauss *"The Mikado," Selection Sullivan *"Londondery Air" Arranged by Grainger *The Animals' Carnival, Grand Zoological Fantasia Saint-Saens Introduction and Royal March of the Lion Cocks and Hens Horses of Tartary (Fleet Animals) Tortoises The Elephant Kangaroos Personages with long ears The Cuckoo in the depth of the forest Pianists The Swan (Solo Violoncello: J. Langendoen) Finale Pianos: Jesus Maria Sanroma Leo Litwin *"Of Thee I Sing," Selection Gershwin *To a Wild Rose MacDowell *"Stars and Stripes Forever" Sousa...