Word: mardi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vicious, grafting plug-uglies. Mayor James J. Walker of New York City,* with 36 pairs of spats and a plenitude of evening shirts, morning shirts, afternoon shirts and silk pajamas instead of nightshirts, all most exquisitely cared for by Robert Abel, English valet, last week set out for the Mardi Gras at New Orleans. The theory: the Midwest may think what it has a mind to about Tammany Hall, but what the South thinks of Tammany is important. At Baltimore, Tammany's dandy lived up to his word that he had "nothing to sell" by not once mentioning Candidate...
Impressed by the way he conducted himself last summer in Europe, the Mardi Gras Committee of New Orleans last week announced that it had invited glib, dapper Mayor James John Walker of New York to be Lord High Chamberlain of its revels next month. Mayor Walker was reported trying to contrive to accept...
...lamentable conclusion that the stimuli which produce those reactions most magnificently show a constantly increasing cheapness and standardization"), "The Motherland," "American Criticism," "The Muse in Our Midst." Unlike Mr. Mencken, Author Nathan seldom sweats or bares his teeth; he dances, like a graceful, surly, clever clown through a loud Mardi Gras of vulgarity...
...century later, on the same day, Shrove Tuesday-a week ago-half a million people crowded into the town to participate in Mardi Gras (fat Tuesday) with the definite purpose in mind of having a good time. Out of that picturesque escapade a hundred years ago has emerged the serious business of celebrating its anniversary. Pink-cheeked Iowans with Happy Hooligan hat complexes are frantically chased through the crowds by corpulent wives arrayed as Madame Gump...
...there should be no mistaking the ponderous esteem in which the city's gentility hold Mardi Gras. To receive the precious envelope with a little number in one corner is to be touched by Fortune for some girls and not to receive it is vexatious humiliation to others, for only those who have the little numbers may dance with Maskers. The old aristocracy does not forget the relative importance of the various clubs: Comus, the oldest, Atlanteans, Momus, Twelfth Night, Mystics, a score of others, nor does it become too freely intrigued with street processionals...