Word: halloween
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...week-long festivities climax on Mardi-Gras Day, or "Fat Tuesday," when the oldest, most traditional krewes--"Rex" and "Comus"--hold their celebrations. On that day, everyone, young and old, dons a bizarre costume and by 10 a.m. the entire city is drunk, reveling in a combination Halloween-New Year's Eve craziness. The Rex King--a wealthy New Orleans civic leader--glides downtown to toast his young Queen in a ritual unchanged for a century...
...uptight, today is a holiday and I'm just getting into the spirit. Valentine's Day is no Holy Day, so I can't go to church; it is not a political holiday so there is no parade downtown; nothing is for free like on Halloween, not even love, so I'm just gonna stroll on over to the Coop or Store 24 and catch some more jollies looking at Valentine's Day cards. Oh wow, how cruel--I know just the guy to send this one to! Oh my God, is that awful, so suggestive--she'd love...
Turner could not have been pleased with his victims' undisciplined response. They dubbed the occasion the "Halloween massacre" and passed around a takeoff of the admiral's song in Gilbert and Sullivan's H.M.S. Pinafore...
...EXPLOITS of Larry and Dave have a comical tone, as if the draft were a game for college kids to play, a challenge, like climbing up Mem Hall to hang jack o'lanterns on Halloween. In fact, the draft was not such a serious business in 1972, an election year, when the number of inducted dropped from 96,000 to 50,000, and most of those who were drafted never saw Viet Nam. But in the years before, the Army's famous "greetings" announcement changed a lot of lives, even in the sheltered middle class...
...more written about them. Enveloped in clouds of pipe smoke, he was equally adept at describing the Federal Reserve's operations in maddeningly vague language to congressional committees and relishing a joke in private with a friend. He had an unexpected love of partygoing, yet on one Halloween in 1971, when a Virginia host asked guests to arrive in costume. Burns attended in his usual dark business suit. Says Charls Walker, then Under Secretary of the Treasury: "He came in costume, all right. He came dressed as Arthur Burns...