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Next day, still in the gayest spirits, he drove down to Annapolis followed by a cortege of a dozen cars bearing his numerous family and friends (including the Morgenthaus, Hopkinses, Tugwells), to attend a regatta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Limited Power | 6/3/1935 | See Source »

...retired last week if he had been a step faster. The race is ridden by amateurs, watched for nothing, by 20,000 of the people who make upper Virginia and Maryland the best fox hunting country in the U. S. Last week's crowd was the biggest and gayest since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Maryland Hunt Cup | 5/6/1935 | See Source »

...launching of the Queen Mary broke up one of the gayest holidays that Britain's royal family has spent in many a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Crown: Oct. 8, 1934 | 10/8/1934 | See Source »

...plantation. When Jim learned that he would have to travel 500 miles each way, that there were 200 girls on the other plantation, he said: "Well, boss, I'll go. But it seems a mighty fur piece for just a few days' work." Carmer calls Mobile "loveliest ... gayest of American cities," thinks its charm has been less commercialized than New Orleans'. He says not a word about its legendary high-flying eagles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Where Stars Fell | 7/2/1934 | See Source »

...Hang the Kaiser" and a statesman called the "Tiger." Before the bitterness and diplomacy of these men the dream shriveled, concession followed concession, the concert of the nations lapsed into dissonance, and the dreamer returned to the repudiation of his own people. It was a dreary peace. Perhaps the gayest note was at the signing when for the first time in five years the fountains played at Versailles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 5/21/1934 | See Source »

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