Word: gala
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...family proceeded with a slow movement toward the shrine. This took two hours. At the shrine (Kashiki-Dokoro or Holy of Holies) the pair took their vows, witnessed by 122 imperial spirits. They then exchanged bowls of sacred rice-wine. That was all. Thereupon 101 guns announced to the gala populace without that the ceremony was complete. After a royal luncheon, the Prince Regent and his consort led a triumphal procession from the Imperial palace to their temporary residence. "Banzai!" shouted the endless crowd...
There followed a gala dinner at the Biltmore Hotel. There the Italian Ambassador presented the baritone with the order of San Maurizio and Lazzare, conferred by the King of Italy...
Water, water almost everywhere and not a drop too much to drink! The piteous cry has resounded through Cambridge during all this week of "gala festivities". Portly undergraduates and graduates have been dwindled to emaciated shadows; it is not inconceivable that some unfortunates disappeared under the confetti shower of Tuesday in nameless but heroic graves...
...time. But attention is fastened this week not on excellence or perfection but on what Harvard can furnish--be it good or bad, athletic or scholastic. It is a tribute to Ray but hardly to Harvard that the University must depend on an outsider for one of the gala events of Commencement Week...
...gala night came. The public, respectfully heeding the great maestro's command that no late comer be admitted, arrived in early crowds. They were greeted by a file of soldiers who lined the lobby and began searching everybody. The search went slowly and the crowd swelled before the theatre. The people who had been searched trooped back to check their cloaks. In the cloakroom stood the same single old fellow of yore. Nobody had thought of putting on extra help for the wholesale cloak checking. Between these two sources of delay only a few hundred people got into the auditorium...