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    gala


    1. She listened to the story unfold with a growing sense of unease and disappointment, a sense that rapidly turned to despair and utter devastation when the pictures cut to the image of an ecstatic twelve year old from Grimsby who would be attending a gala bash in London the following weekend where the boy and his band would finally be unveiled


    2. Grimsby who would be attending a gala bash in London the


    3. for this gala affair


    4. It was four hours before the beginning of the gala


    5. One blatant example was the Vanuatu Gala Ball


    6. the largest gala in memory


    7. Daniel Gilbert was spotted escorting Lucky, wife of cousin Jesse Gilbert out of the Corporate Gala event in Miami’s Hilton Plaza Saturday night


    8. Sundays, as Krishnan had already discovered were gala days, something like a village fair


    9. In May 2000, I got an email from NCMA’s Central CT chapter containing a meeting announcement from Pat Gnazzo and Paul Robert about that June’s CCC gala end-of-program-year meeting (free booze etc


    10. At social gatherings tensions imagined themselves; there was always last month’s gala he preferred to sound like an idealist

    11. Gala Rego sat at the highest marked attendance rating


    12. The invitation only gala was hosted by none other than legendary promoter Bill Parker, otherwise known to the world simply as Big Whig


    13. "He will be attending gala dinners or other formal events in the future and I am sure he will bring you as his date


    14. Yes, this was their kind of social gala, one to which they could both easily relate, and the number of chances he would have to recount old stories was innumerable


    15. We were being driven to the gala in Remy’s private car and he was looking at me appreciatively


    16. the ladies from that gala affair


    17. supported and in addition the Annual Gala,


    18. Because a secret search for hidden valuables at Daifen’s house was best undertaken if one were invited there under an innocent pretext, a pretext that would occur that year at the Daifen residence only for one night––the gala on the eve of the new year; and in order to mingle with the nobles invited, I had to pass for a one


    19. “We would be having a gala time next Sunday


    20. The workers in the colony had planned a gala celebration for new years

    21. KRAP could hardly claim the credit, but an impressive gala had taken


    22. They threw around thoughts for the packages and discussed the grand opening gala


    23. “And how excited you are for the big opening gala we’re going to hold and invite all of the press to, because this conference-slash-reception center—the whole hotel—is something special,” Rosemary finished


    24. “We already received confirmation that the prince’s representative is going to be here for the gala,” Lana confirmed


    25. The encamisados were all timid folk and unarmed, so they speedily made their escape from the fray and set off at a run across the plain with their lighted torches, looking exactly like maskers running on some gala or festival night


    26. While Sancho fared thus, Don Quixote was watching the entrance, at one end of the arcade, of some twelve peasants, all in holiday and gala dress, mounted on twelve beautiful mares with rich handsome field trappings and a number of little bells attached to their petrals, who, marshalled in regular order, ran not one but several courses over the meadow, with jubilant shouts and cries of "Long live Camacho and Quiteria! he as rich as she is fair; and she the fairest on earth!"


    27. These were her gala days


    28. She was impressed when they first met at a New Year's eve gala at the top the


    29. Bicentennial gala in New York


    30. Shortly after that I was invited by the chief minister of Punjab, Shahbaz Sharif, to speak in Lahore at an education gala

    31. The Kennedys followed the release of the panel’s report with a gala dinner, hosted by the Kennedy Foundation, in Washington, D


    32. Along with the article is a photo of Paige Sulzman in a sundress at some fancy gala


    33. Loyal Shoudy, a prominent and fanatically loyal Washington alumnus, was so impressed by the boys’ achievement that he took them into New York City that night and treated them to a stage show and a gala dinner


    34. "For the hospital gala


    35. My weekend bag is still upstairs, left there before the gala


    36. He never left the gala, he was walking around looking for me


    37. With my cousins Bobby and Maria Shriver at the Semel Institute Great Minds Gala, April 2015


    38. The gala was in many ways as melancholy as it was funny, given the tragic exits of several of SNL’s most brilliant performers


    39. Still later, I saw Ray Charles approaching on his way to the stage at a big gala concert at which my wife, Diana, was playing


    40. It was a long evening with a gala concert and a presentation followed by a four-course banquet during which there was a further cabaret

    41. This was something entirely different from the induction gala


    42. The headmistress was not the one he’d been expecting … not, at any rate, the portly old lady with whom he’d clinked glasses at a Hamilton-Sweeney gala long ago


    43. That a hundred yards from the Hamilton-Sweeney New Year’s gala (as “Dr


    44. “Well, that explains your being at the gala,” the detective said to Mercer


    45. After the famous gala night, she sang once at the Duchess de Zurich's; but this was the last occasion on which she was heard in private


    46. And then came the lightning-flash of the gala performance: the heavens torn asunder and an angel's voice heard upon earth for the delight of mankind and the utter capture of his heart


    47. Pedro Gailhard, the former manager of the Opera, to keep his secret regarding the extremely interesting and useful personality of the wandering, cloaked shade which, while condemning itself to live in the cellars of the Opera, rendered such immense services to those who, on gala evenings, for instance, venture to stray away from the stage


    48. For a week after, the children were playing nothing but Red Riding Hood on the Heath and in every alley in the place until this 'bloofer lady' scare came along, since then it has been quite a gala time with them


    49. Who are you? You are a bishop; that is to say, a prince of the church, one of those gilded men with heraldic bearings and revenues, who have vast prebends,—the bishopric of D—— fifteen thousand francs settled income, ten thousand in perquisites; total, twenty-five thousand francs,—who have kitchens, who have liveries, who make good cheer, who eat moor-hens on Friday, who strut about, a lackey before, a lackey behind, in a gala coach, and who have palaces, and who roll in their carriages in the name of Jesus Christ who went barefoot! You are a prelate,—revenues, palace, horses, servants, good table, all the sensualities of life; you have this like the rest, and like the rest, you enjoy it; it is well; but this says either too much or too little; this does not enlighten me upon the intrinsic and essential value of the man who comes with the probable intention of bringing wisdom to me


    50. Torn both ways—after all, it is his daughter—he lets the pictures go but runs the film on a continuous roundabout reel, Molly, Dolly, Sally, Holly, Gala, Willa, Sue

















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    Synonyms for "gala"

    blowout gala gala affair jamboree celebration party function reception affair carnival lively bright splendid gay elaborate colourful glittering

    "gala" definitions

    a gay festivity