Crossword-Solution: CARNIVALS 9 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 14

Here was now the city playground, the lake where in winter the people held ice carnivals, and where, now that spring was on the way, they rode in the little cars of the Scenic Railway.

Miss Braithwaite looked drawn about the eyes, and considered carnivals rather common, and certainly silly.

The procession was to be in costume! There were to be Pierrots and Pierettes, Harlequins and English clowns, aristocrats and goddesses! All day the women and girls were busy contriving travesties of all sorts, and the little tumbledown shops in the Rue de Chateau and the Rue Frederic Sauvage--kept chiefly by Jews and English traders--were ransacked for old bits of finery, and for remnants of costumes, worn in the days when Boulogne was still a gay city and Carnivals were held every year.

Bolivia, similarly governed, was still the scene of the orgies and carnivals which had for some time characterized its unfortunate history.

The marvel is that, in spite of the almost invariably adverse weather, these Carnivals still continue.