Word: galas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...zealously as his father preached pills, Sir Thomas Beecham has preached music in England, spending 25 years and $10,000,000 on symphony concerts and operas. Often Sir Thomas has remarked good-naturedly that music in England is one long, promissory note. But at the season's gala opening in Covent Garden last week, England's No. 1 conductor was in no mood for suave epigrams. The opera was Fidelia, a heavy choice for Londoners less interested in Beethoven than in the King and Queen of Siam who sat in the royal box. The overture started but conversation...
Next month, L. Bamberger & Co., merchants extraordinary, and purveyors by appointment to His Majesty the American Middle Class, will again break forth in a fit of generosity and furnish for baffled graduates a gala meeting to help them decide their life careers...
...winners of these round-robins, both tutors and tutees could then meet at a gala carnival of erudition for the Championship of the University! The final Champions, after receiving the Cup, which I have no doubt someone would donate, could then offer to answer any questions on any field that anybody in the audience could posit. You can easily see how intense the friendly rivalry between departments would become--the white heat of enthusiasm during the Finals, and the excusable pride of the winning departments...
...Through long and unamusing years he works his way up through every job in every kind of hotel until he is making good pay as an expert with a reputation. Then he sinks everything into his Perfect Inn, only to face failure when a murder and suicide on the gala opening night give the place a noisome name. Bloody but unbowed, Myron goes back to an underling's job. The story ends with his running a country hotel in Kansas, scheming to build the Perfect Tourist Camp...
...vapid a snip as has ever disgraced his class in the cinema, Tod seems vaguely hurt because Janie, when she learns what subterfuges he has used, goes back to the musicomedy which the dance director is financing from his own pocket, helps the opening night to be completely gala...