Word: galas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gala occasion the campus is decorated as it is at no other time during the year. A large, well-sculptured statue of ice, generally of some revered son of Dartmouth, stands at a prominent spot on the campus. The fraternities also take great pains to brighten their thresholds with ice and snow sculptures, many of which are electrically illuminated, so that in general a holiday air prevails...
...company. Hollywood knew and admired Bern as the No. 1 assistant of Production Chief Irving Thalberg. "Dearest Dear" was Paul Bern's wife, Jean Harlow, 21-year-old film actress (Hell's Angels, Red Headed Woman), whose marriage to Bern last July was the most surprising, most gala, most romanticized wedding of Hollywood's summer. When the note was found last week near Bern's unclothed body, in the bedroom where he had killed himself, Hollywood was faced with a tragedy as bizarre and inscrutable as any in its bizarre and scandalous history...
...piety, Ireland, home of 3,171,697 Catholics, motherland of many a U. S. priest? Chosen then was Dublin. With St. Patrick as a conspicuous example, the Congress would take as its theme "The Propagation of the Sainted Eucharist by Irish Missionaries." There would be many religious doings, very gala indeed. Previous Congresses have had their characteristic notes, wrote Managing Editor Vincent de Paul Fitz-patrick of The Catholic Review. In Chicago there was the "enthusiasm of the Americans"; in Rome "the everlasting glory of the church"; in Spain "the love of beauty and gallantry of the Spanish"; in Carthage...
...could hardly see the flowers for the McCormicks one afternoon last week in Chicago's Chester Johnson Galleries. The smart and art sets were gathered, 500 strong, for a gala tea. There was Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick, pouring, looking pale & wan; crippled Robert Hall McCormick cheerily greeting everyone from his wheel chair; Mr. & Mrs. Chauncey McCormick; Mrs. Fowler (Fifi Stillman) McCormick. and many another of the Clan McCormick. Ill abed, Harold McCormick sent roses. A late arrival?he had been to the funeral of Packer Edward Foster Swift (TIME, June 6)?was Col. Robert Rutherford McCormick, publisher...
London is having gala opera at Covent Garden in spite of a midwinter decision to the contrary. King George and Queen Mary went to Tannhauser last week, had supper served between acts in the anteroom to the Royal...