Word: shindigs
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...Shindig Defended...
...wrote three months ago to Francis Henry Taylor, director of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, asking him to head a council for a nationwide celebration of Art Week. Gathering 147 National Council members from every corner of the country, Director Taylor laid plans for the biggest art shindig the U. S. had ever seen. Its purposes: 1) to get the U. S. public to buy more art; 2) to get artists to sell their work at prices within reach of the average man's pocketbook...
...music, with such composers as Howard Hanson and William Grant Still conducting their own pieces. Edwin McArthur conducted Deems Taylor's Circus Day. The amplification was tinny, airplanes zoomed, firecrackers popped, a military band zing-boomed past but everyone thought the concert was swell. The evening shindig filled the Coliseum (capacity 15,000) and Festival Hall (3,000), left more than 5,000 people clamoring outside. For the 33 numbers on the program, ASCAP and Tin Pan Alley had shot the works. Composers like Jerome Kern and Sigmund Romberg played the piano. Old (78) Carrie Jacobs Bond accompanied...
Word has slithered in that a vile shindig is to be held this Friday; that immoral pastimes such as the dance shall be indulged in; that wild revelry shall shriek through hallowed halls until the first vestiges of dawn. In other words, in an effort to laugh down the sinister smirk of finals, Leverett House is throwing a dance. For some trivial sum, you will be able to prance and dance to the music of Kent Bartlett and watch a smooth, suave exhibition of what should be (but ain't) done on the dance floor...
...standing in Dublin's Plaza Hall became Eire's No. 1 sightseeing attraction for tourists. The Draw, held thrice a year (on the Grand National, Derby and Cesarewitch)-with Eire's prettiest nurses picking tickets out of the Drum's 24 portholes-was a national shindig. Irish hospitals were run as though Rockefeller-endowed...