Word: mall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dismal, fitful rain stopped at last, or seemed to, shortly before the Queen was to appear. A hoarse command went up, and a bright red ribbon seemed suddenly to unroll along both edges of the Mall-the guardsmen, still beneath their big black bearskins, had doffed their raincapes by the numbers. The thousands cheered. A workman somehow got onto the Mall on a bicycle, pedaled incongruously past, tipping his hat from side to side in Chaplinesque solemnity while the crowd cheered...
...Mall and along the entire six-mile route of the coronation procession, Londoners and gawk-eyed visitors cheered London's bright new look. For months, the old city had looked as untidily unattractive as a dowager in a wrapper, curlers and mudpack. Statues were boarded up, the handsome old clubs in St. James and Pall Mall were defaced with iron scaffoldings, half of Westminster Square lay awash in cold rows of unpainted platforms and stands. But as if on signal last week, the curlers and mudpack came off, and London glowed with color and excitement. The official coronation decorations...
...long, lavender coat and jeweled turban, stalking through the rubble of wartime London with her inevitable, restless, prying umbrella, authoritative as a royal mace, or the sight of the old Queen pottering in & out of antique shops, slipping into the back row of suburban movie theaters, sweeping down Pall Mall in her towering automobile. "I think they call it a Daimler," she told a bemused G.I. to whom she gave a ride...
...morning coffee and lunch), the long, black limousines nosed up to the State Department for diplomatic visits, the newspapers and press associations kept a corporal's guard on duty at the White House, and the tourists trekked from the Washington Monument to the Smithsonian and down the Mall to the Capitol. Yet beneath the routine, Washington was like Main Street-listening for the first drumbeats of the big parade...
...Sundry tackles from the bench, a footrace between a fan and the police at a Georgia Tech game (the cop tackled him in the end zone), and the efforts of a Chicago gentleman to set up a "mall-order athletic bureau" and recruit athletes from all over the country...