Word: mardi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...June by a slightly more mature and smaller selection of horses, offers a more distinguished group of 3-year-olds than the Derby. But the Kentucky Derby is more than a horse race. It is a U. S. institution. If you have been to New Orleans for Mardi Gras and to Louisville on Derby Day, you have celebrated two of the country's greatest fiestas...
...jinx perversely continued to cling to the coattails of Col. Abraham Lazard ("Abe") Shushan of New Orleans and his airport last week. Week before, during the Mardi Gras weekend, the new $4,000,000 field on the shore of Lake Pontchartrain was to have been dedicated with a four-day air meet. The airport, far superior to any other field in the U. S., had been built by the Orleans Levee Board of which Col. Shushan, good friend of Senator Huey Long, is president. In gratitude for his loyalty Senator Long permitted the new field to be named...
...Martha Granger Blair and Betty Field. New Orleans, The Times-Picayune's Anna Bolton Ellis, grey and gracious, has held her job for 32 years, is nearly as potent in her sphere as Cincinnati's Devereux in hers, assigning party dates and terrifying climbers. From January through Mardi Gras, New Orleans social-writers lead a hectic life, covering the highly organized festivities of their city. Seattle is a Democratic town. On its society pages from time to time
Thursday, March 2, and New Orleans was completely recovered from its Mardi Gras hangover-recovered as if struck by a douche of cold water, for that morning all Louisiana banks had been closed by proclamation. Hundreds of distracted visitors found they could not get funds to get home. Distracted thousands, natives and visitors, cursed Huey Long's Governor Allen, who the night before had entrained for the inauguration, who with his expense money in his pocket had dictated the proclamation and left it to be issued after his departure...
...means downhearted or broke, gay Brazilians have just spent an estimated $7,000,000 on their uproarious three-day Mardi Gras Carnival (Feb. 26-28). celebrated amid sizzling, record summer heat by nearly a million merrymakers...