Word: galas
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...last House dances before the Spring Vacation, Eliot House is sponsoring a gala celebration next Friday night, and final plans are now being arranged by the committee under the chairmanship of Robert C. Holcombe...
...night before the wedding Dutch prudence caused both Deutschland Über Alles and the Horst Wessel song to be played at a gala theatrical evening for the royal couple, while Dutch indignation sent speeding to Berlin an extremely stiff note in which Her Majesty's Government demanded that the German Government make its press mind its manners. Scheduled to appear at the gala were some broad Dutch comedians famed for an act in which the chief funster appears as Kaiser Wilhelm II, then strips off gold lace, upturned mustaches and so forth until he finally ends in a plain...
...apple-cheeked college classmates of Her Royal Highness, a double line of cadets from The Netherlands Indies in grim trench helmets, a single line of Royal Navy Cadets in parade dress and "100,000 Dutch girls," thousands in national finery-not the everyday Dutch peasant bonnet but the gala holiday bonnet with embroidery and ornaments of actual gold, these representing solid Dutch peasant savings of many lifetimes. In The Netherlands nobody ever snatches or steals such ornaments, and woe to whoever should! Alighting, the bride & bridegroom went indoors to be united in civil marriage by the Burgomaster of The Hague...
While in Minnesota Swedes hold a gala country dance, big blond square-headed people singing and shouting and stamping and reeling. While in Vermont Ephraim Putney puts down "The Contry Gentleman" and rubs his eyes as he clumps in his loose old Congress gaiters up to bed. While in Florida a huge corps of painters, cleaning-women and janitors go over the Miami-Biltmore, working late to get ready for the coming rush. While overseas the bright young Mr. Eden scratches his head over the second major diplomatic crisis he has had to handle in a year. While Mussolini frowns...
...blaze far into the night. Cardinal Kaspar, head of the Catholic Church in Czechoslovakia, went so far as to permit his Czech flock to eat meat all day Friday. Nothing was lacking to make the reception the sort that Carol most enjoys. There were champagne banquets, boy scouts, a gala opera, hordes of game birds to be slaughtered. Carol graciously returned all these compliments by ordering machine guns for Rumania from the Czech Skoda Works, and with cheers ringing in his ears parted from President Benes with the cordiality of a long-lost brother...