Word: galas
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...music lasted until a late hour at the Senior Dance last night: the success of which augurs well for the gala Class Day program set for today. The Yard is in full raiment for the festivities to greet returning graduates, and Groundkeeper Dennis Enright reported last night that the Stadium award is in perfect condition for this afternoon's affairs...
...gala night at Covent Garden, London. The King was there, so were the Queen with the old Dowager Countess of Minto, the Duke and the Duchess of Beaufort, he who was King Manuel and she who was Queen Augusta of Portugal, Prince Chichibu of Japan and a hundred other folk whom people jostle through crowds to glimpse. But it was not for the King or for the Queen that common folk had stood, many of them, some 20 hours in line, not for them especially that Covent Garden had preened itself to a pre-War splendor. It was for Nellie...
...Will Be Gala Occasion...
Last week these two ruthless autocrats terminated the farce that Greece is a republic. They tendered a gala banquet to military and naval men at Athens. Amid the popping of champagne corks, Premier Pangalos arose and proclaimed himself the head of an absolute dictatorship over Greece: "Henceforth, with the help of the Army and Navy, I will govern as dictator. Greece in a few months will have a fleet dominating the eastern basin of the Mediterranean, and the strongest army in the Balkans...
...pilot train, whisked him 700 miles across the pampas to Mendoza. There the Prince changed to a special train of the Trans-Andean Railways, was drawn across the divide by two engines, arrived in the pleasant greenery of Santiago di Chili. He began at once to accomplish five gala days, spiced with Chilean ardor...