Word: shindigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Paris was as gay as ever. The dressy set had recovered from the Four Seasons Ball, and was studying pictorial evidence of the shindig's stylish fauna & flora: Britain's Lady Diana Duff Cooper, wife of the former ambassador to France, as a sad unicorn; Couturier Jacques Fath and Mme. Fath as tame tiger and roe, and Schiaparelli, in something she had run up herself as a carefree radish...
Most of what the 21st annual awards told of the state of the cinema in 1948 lay in the presentation shindig itself. Planned in Hollywood's new economy, the affair was low-budgeted and undersized compared to past performances of the town's most profitable yearly publicity stunt. Only two searchlights cut into the overcast outside the theater; half a dozen blocks away, three Hollywood searchlights blazed gaudily for the opening of a new self-service gas station...
Pakistan's Governor General Khwaja Nazimuddin and Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan graciously wired congratulations and promoted the Amir to lieutenant general in Pakistan's army. It was the Amir's turn to be gracious. As a climax to his fabulous shindig, he announced the first popular reform in the state's history: a 25-member state assembly. The Amir would pick nine members, leaving 16 to be chosen by a complicated system of indirect election...
...know-she could give you a good time if she had only a five-cent beer." They suspect that she is lonely. With the bounty of a childless woman, she lavishes affection on her blonde niece Betty Tyson, whose Newport coming-out party in 1945 was the gaudiest shindig since before the war. Her restlessness has found outlets in her parties and such causes as the women's equal-rights amendment, for which she has lobbied tirelessly for years. With unconscious wistfulness, she explains: "Only the busy person is happy...
Like a dying whale, the monster Academy shindig saved its mightiest thrash for last: to everyone's astonishment, Loretta Young was named (over Competitors Rosalind Russell, Joan Crawford, Dorothy McGuire, Susan Hayward) the year's best cinemactress for her blonde-braided lady-politicking in The Farmer's Daughter. Gurgled Loretta, who had never been...