Mardi Gras

Whenever I shifted in my chair, the ropes of Mardi Gras beads would shimmy.

Mardi Gras, held on February 25 of last year, was one of New Orleans’ last normal moments before the pandemic.

People began to wonder if the flu-like symptoms they’d experienced in the days after Mardi Gras were more than just an annual bug.

Those fact that those samples were so closely related, the researchers found, “strongly suggests” that a single person, most likely from Texas, set off a cascade of transmissions that ended up driving the outbreak during and after Mardi Gras.

A lot of people getting together for Mardi Gras balls, getting together in close spaces, eating and drinking and chatting.

That is the sense of the Saturnalia, of Mardi Gras and of these moments of entertainment.

When the host is in a festive mood, entering customers are given strings of Mardi Gras beads.

Larry Bannock was the chief of a Mardi Gras Indian tribe in New Orleans.

When he died, all the black Mardi Gras Indians came out and kissed the ground in front of his house.

He started a group called the Hawkettes, which in 1954 recorded "Mardi Gras Mambo," a song still popular around New Orleans.

The frolic had in it a Mardi Gras spirit quite foreign to the wonted quiet and dignity of the place.

What could have been better for the purpose than to have made them parade before us in historic mardi-gras?

Then another entertainment, a sort of mardi-gras maigre feast, was a champagne tea given for us at the Capitol by Mr. Blaine.

Public masking on the streets, on the day of Mardi Gras, is also an amusing feature of the carnival.

For months the advance orders for the coming Mardi Gras festivals have kept the work going day and night.