gala

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Rubio, whose travels as the top US diplomat have been swift and business-like, will visit four Indian cities starting Saturday and attend a gala reception in New Delhi for the 250th anniversary of US independence.

From Barron's • May 21, 2026

Before each gala premiere, the hotel hosts what it calls the cortège, or procession.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

You don’t even have Tom Cruise rappelling in for a “Mission: Impossible” gala.

From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2026

The invitation-only gala, which benefits The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute, began in 1948 as a fundraiser that marked the Institute’s annual spring fashion exhibition and was attended primarily by high-society museum patrons.

From Salon • May 5, 2026

The Mutual had thrown a five-day-long “Dedication Festival,” a gala event that included a formal banquet held, not on the NCC campus, but in Duke University’s “Great Hall.”

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson