Word: band
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...courtyard of the grey Palais de 1'Elysée shuffled the famed Garde Républicaine band; within the huge pile fidgeted Gaston Doumergue, Protestant President of France, Aristide Briand, anticlerical Premier, lesser officials. They were trapped out in state uniforms, ribbons across chests, decorations pendent. They spoke little. Premier Briand was thinking of his successful 1905 fight to oust the Church from its French properties, of his long struggle to keep separate Church and State in France. President Doumergue thought of his Huguenot ancestors buried in Provence. Here he was, a Protestant, about to lend his office...
Attention! The band fell into place; gendarmes along the rue de Faubourg St.-Honoré stood stark, forcibly restraining Parisians crowded against the cordons in hopes that there would fall upon them in blessing the bright eyes of Cardinal Cerretti as he sat beside His Eminence Louis-Ernest Cardinal Dubois, Archbishop of Paris, as they were trundled along in the state coach, accompanied by two squadrons of cuirassiers, to the crowning...
...publique has frugally preserved from monarchial times; felt the soft folds of the cappa magna fall over his shoulders from the hands of his brother cardinal; passed into a makeshift vestry; donned in privacy the complete cardinalitial regalia; stepped out a prince of the Church; accepted felicitations. The band blared to perfection the Marseillaise...
...Committee of the Whole referred the bill to the House for a formal vote. Nearly all jumped on the band wagon. Only 25 negative votes were passed?by two Socialists, three Farmer-Laborites, ten Republicans (mostly from Wisconsin) and ten Democrats?among them Rainey?bloody but unbowed...
President Coolidge, in the White House, sat down to pass a pleasant evening with a dossier of papers and a pair of carpet slippers, but in the Chicago Riding Club thoroughbred horses paraded to the music of the band; society sat throned in boxes draped with Spanish shawls, which gave the place the appearance of a bull ring; delegations of children from the Catholic, Jewish and Protestant orphanages and from the Illinois Children's Home clapped their hands in delight. Once the great gathering sucked in its breath and stood up in its seats with the shivering "Ah!" that...