Word: galas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Crowds swarm down the midway, full of booths with popcorn, and whirling wheels; banners blazon forth the particular peculiarities of the inhabitants of the side show; and above it all, the calliope sounds the motif of a gala occasion in the life of every farmer--the state fair. Into this bucolic paradise, Abel Frake drives his Ford, his family, and his Hampshire boar Blue...
...Howard Athenaeum--Reopening. This will be a gala affair, girls, with all the town's best in their Sunday finery...
Quietest but most crushing squelch came from the greatest golfer of them all. In Hollywood, whither he went to make some movies after the gala opening of his Augusta National Course (TIME, Jan. 23), Robert Tyre Jones II said with the finality of an old poker player discussing wild deuces: "It might make an interesting game, but it would not be golf...
...into receivership, grew dingier & dingier while its longtime patrons went to the new plush-lined theatre on Wacker Drive. Last week the Insull House was dark and the Auditorium, refurbished at a cost of $125,000, was open again. The Chicago Bohemians' Club sponsored last week's gala Auditorium concert to help jobless musicians. Sturdy Frederick Stock conducted the Chicago Symphony augmented by outside players to a mighty 200. Soprano Elsa Alsen and Baritone John Charles Thomas sang. Pianist Josef Hofmann left his inventing* long enough to solo in Rubinstein's D Minor Concerto...
Under the dim lights of the New Lecture Hall this evening there will be a pageant of the nations, not that gala event which blesses the sawdust ring, but the more serious conception of international pageantry produced under the direction of Phillips Brooks House. The Harvard Model League, of all the 20,000 in the country, is said to be the best, but even so, one wonders. Just like the real league in Geneva, they say, so splendid to arouse interest in international affairs, and at the same time it teaches how the diplomatic machinery works. Of course, there...