Word: fete
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Venice (Sept. 11-25), which does not specialize in big-name performers at its respected annual modern-music fete, nevertheless lias its big-name composers. This year's big event: the world premiere of Prokofiev's The Flaming Angel. The opera was finished in the '20s but never got a Russian performance, presumably because of its religious theme...
American tourists were already spreading over Europe. They poured into London at the rate of 1,000 a day. bought out (through June) Stratford's Shakespeare fete, booked all available accommodations for the late summer (Aug. 21-Sept. 10) Edinburgh Festival. In Madrid all hotels were filled, and at the bullfights, Americans sat in the best seats (shade). At 11 o'clock one night last week, no fewer than 75 Americans were happily throwing coins into Rome's famed Trevi Fountain, thus, according to legend, ensuring a return trip...
...show them that we're wide-awake and human and willing to play ball, as it were." Then he went off to peddle his papers, happily turning over in his mind the chances of getting Gregory Peck to make a personal appearance at St. Dunstan's annual fete next month...
...stood breathlessly awaiting the first round of a long-heralded bout of fisticuffs between two gentlemen named Lee Savold and Bruce Woodcock, Dr. Edith threw a haymaker at the manly art of the prize ring itself. "The Woodcock-Savold fight and all similar spectacles," she announced at a garden fete, "are neither amusing nor instructive. Mothers and teachers must instruct small boys that fighting with fists or atomic bombs is uncivilized...
Some of the girls' deans have not definitely consented to let their students attend the fete, but most girls expected to get the necessary clearance before 7:30 p.m. dance time...