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Lima, dressed in gala attire, festooned with myriads of electric lamps, sporting a liberal number of triumphal arches, and holding a jubilant populace, showed not a trace of anxiety over the nugatory revolt. And when Ambassador Pershing arrived, his genial smile was mirrored in the faces of tens of thousands. "December 9th" was celebrated...
...coaches and masseurs and trainers, but a matter of a personal dislike toward going into strict "training" for any event. I defy the best coach in the world to make a consistent winner out of any man whose ideas of an athletic contest are irretrievably coupled with a gala celebration the night before the event, and cigarettes and pipes up to the time he steps into his athletic clothes. The Continental nations, and England too, know very well the American attitude toward that matter of training, and they know that it is simply a question of individual will-a question...
...golden horseshoe" is so called because its 35 boxes?the lower row, known as the parterre?are roughly in the shape of a horseshoe, the stage being in the heel. A gala night at the opera concentrates about as much wealth in this broken ellipse as in any other given spot on the earth's surface...
November is to be a gala month in the history of the American theatre. In response to an invitation from Secretary Hughes, M. Firmin Gemier, director and leading actor of Le Theatre National de l'Opera of Paris, is coming to New York with a considerable part of his company for a visit to the American stage...
Nipping winds and purple haze have promised football for some time, but it is only today that their pledge is realized. To compensate for this unseemly delay, however, there come the glad tidings that the opening game will be a truly gala affair. The band which has hitherto spent early season Saturdays practicing its mystical evolutions has overcome self-consciousness and will appear in true November fashion. This clearing of its brassy throat depends, of course, upon the arrival of uniforms, but indeed without rakishly set sailor caps and boldly crimson sweaters, the band would cut but a sorry figure...