Word: galas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...privileged to dress as Pops on the day of Eton-Harrow match and on June 4. There are then cricket, fireworks, a parade of crews costumed as 18th Century sailors, and from the river the sounds of the famed Eton Boating Song. Because this is the school's gala day, Old Etonians the world over celebrate it with alumni dinners. In India one might travel 1,000 miles and dine with a score of local governors, all Old Etonians, wearing cravats of black striped with pale blue. In Manhattan this month 20 Old Etonians assembled in honor of Speech...
...famed Palais de la Méditerranée built at Nice by Frank Jay Gould of Paris and New York, dedicated to Opera, Art and Baccarat. Because the restaurant of the Palais is one of the best in Europe it was chosen as the scene of a gala banquet to M. Doumergue (no mean gourmet) tendered by the City of Nice and the Prefecture Council of Alpes-Maritimes...
Divorced. Socialite & Clubman Anthony Joseph ("Tony") Drexel Biddle Jr.; by multimillionairess Mary Duke Biddle, daughter of the late tobacco tycoon, Benjamin Newton Duke; secretly; at Newburgh, N. Y. Corespondent: an unnamed Berlin woman. Mrs. Biddle made a gala of the occasion, led a motorcade of friends to the court...
...made a surreptitious trip to Canada for a bottle of cheer to share with the girl friend from Detroit at the J-Hop, junior class dance. Michigan takes pride in its social life, fancies itself a cut above the average Big Ten college, and the J-Hop is the gala weekend of the year. Two days before the affair one might have heard the young men of Phi Delta Theta singing...
Incognito as "Monsieur Adolphe," His Majesty King Gustaf V arrived for his usual winter sojourn on the French Riviera last week, made for a charity gala at the Casino in Cannes. Strolling in late, Monsieur Adolph learned that 25 tickets for the charity raffle remained unsold, bought ail of them. Few hours later he learned he had won a building lot at a new Riviera resort now striving mightily to push itself. Lotteries, beauty contests, automobile raffles and all such on the Riviera are very often "fixed." Even smarter is the usual way of naming prizes. The prettiest girl...