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Word: galas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shells, the largest number of boats Tom Bolles has ever seen racing together, swept down the Charles under clear skies yesterday in a gala crew regatta, the last event in this fall's formal outdoor rowing season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Comstock Crew Wins Regatta; Bellboys Victors in Track Meet | 11/2/1939 | See Source »

...Varsity Heavies and four Varsity 150's take to the Charles River next Wednesday in a gala regatta which will climax the Fall outdoor rowing season...

Author: By Harry Hammond, | Title: SIX HEAVIES, FOUR 150'S IN FINAL RACE | 10/27/1939 | See Source »

...bought Julius Fleischmann's 225-ft. yacht Camargo, renamed it Ramfis for his small brown son, announced a private pleasure trip to the New York World's Fair-via Washington. This squeeze play soon brought forth almost all the invitations Dictator Trujillo had yearned for-a gala at the Pan American Union, dinner with Acting Chief of Staff Marshall of the U. S. Army, audience with Secretary Hull, tea with Franklin Roosevelt. Also included in the program was a luncheon by Haiti's Minister Elie Lescot, to prove that Haiti has forgiven Trujillo for his troops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Squeeze Play | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

...Lunatic Narcissus" reveals a bare-breasted girl, her face caged with roses, her image multiplied by mirrors. > "The Beach of Gala Salvador" exhibits, against a Dali landscape embellished with exploding giraffes, many a famed surrealist emblem: the erotic white gramophone with a woman's high-heeled foot coming out of the horn; watches flattened out like flabby pancakes; "The Aphrodisiac Vampire," with the head of a tiger and a body studded with pony glasses; "The Ex quisite Corpse," its head and neck a curved umbrella handle, its chest a wooden chest, its thighs made of saucepans, its curved piano...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: As You Enter | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

Twenty Japanese officials and their Chinese puppets sat down to a gala banquet last week at the Japanese Consulate General at Nanking in honor of Japanese Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs Tomesaburo Shimizu. The banquet began with a toast in wine. It ended when all the guests suddenly went under the table from a little poison slipped into the wine by "Chinese enemies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Banquet | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

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