Word: events
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British troops, bringing the British into contact with the Germans for the first time in the war (TIME, Dec. 18). That these British troops threw back a German attack last week was scornfully denied in Berlin. "Curiously," snorted a communique, "the German troops know nothing of such an event...
Last week the cinema event for which the U. S. has palpitated for three years took place in Atlanta, Ga.-the premiere of Gone With the Wind...
...Grand Theatre look like Tara (the O'Hara plantation in Gone With the Wind) streamed a privileged 2,031 who were going to see the picture whose title Hollywood had been abbreviating for three years as G With the W. They were conscious of participating in a national event, of seeing a picture it had taken three yea~s to make from a novel it had taken seven years to write. They knew it had taken two years and something akin to genius to find a girl to play Scarlett O'Hara. They knew it had cost more...
Famed for her parties was the late Mrs. Alexander Hamilton Rice. Until she dropped dead two years ago while shopping in Paris, her tennis-week ball was the No. 1 social event of the Newport season. Lavish was the word for her entertainments at her other mansions in Palm Beach, Paris, Manhattan. But in one of her Manhattan drawing rooms Mrs. Rice never dared to give a party. Reason: she feared for its furnishings, all 18th-Century French, valued at about...
...latter may be booed as a "ringer" but no one will deny that he is an alumnus, the Alumni leaders have asserted. Darle Berizzi '38, ebullient breastroker who has a physique like a tree trunk and Jameson will butterfly against Waldron and Max Kraus in a four-lap event...