Word: pageant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Republican jamboree untimely. Before this, early campaigns have burst into bloom and have been nipped by a frost. If "the boys" climb aboard the Elephant and start lumbering down the race-track now, they may reach the finish before the judges have entered the stand. Then all the brave pageant will be turned to ridicule...
...brought back to normalcy by the spectacle of the tragedy of Sheila. Finally she acquires a complete new soul by the convenient expedient of falling in love with Lloyd Haitian d, a somewhat insistently high-minded young lawyer, through whose disapproving eyes the author watches most of the iniquitous pageant of hip-flasks and jazz...
...Georges Clemenceau, stood at his side to cheer him. Monet, 83, has been blind for several years. It is not likely that he will paint another of the remarkable " series" which made him famous. But at least he has recovered, for himself, what he chiefly sought in art,- the pageant of moving light and air. Going out at dawn into a field near his Normandy home, he would paint a swift " impression" of its row of little haystacks under the light of early morning. Another day, he would paint the same stacks, through the heat-shimmer of high Normandy noon...
...actual pageant embodying the whole personnel of both schools will be given as well as several special features in "tableaux vivants" and vaudeville...
...this evening at the Germanic Museum the Dramatic Club will repeat its performance given last night, of the two miracle plays, "The Lutterworth Christmas Play" of the St. George Cycle and the "Pageant of the Shearmen and Taylors" of the Coventry Cycle...