Word: pageanteer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lecturers discussing the history of religions in Harvard Hall 4. Since the course only covers religious groups up to the time Judaism began, it is not likely that this will overlap anything you learned in Sunday school. Professor Daniel Ingalls will be there to talk about India. The pageant is called History of Religions 101a...
WHEN Queen Elizabeth is crowned next week in Westminster Abbey, the pageant will follow a ritual reaching far back into the history of the British crown. The union of the English lion and Scottish unicorn on the royal arms (above) dates from James I. St. Edward's Crown, placed on the Queen's head at the climax of the ceremony, is a copy of one worn by Edward the Confessor in 1042 and was made for Charles II after Cromwell destroyed the original. The Imperial State Crown, which Elizabeth will wear as she returns to the palace...
Muffled Tread. In the freezing cold of Monday morning, March 9, the pageant of death was played out to its end. A silent 35,000 massed in the flower-banked vastness of Red Square. Thousands held black-bordered portraits of the dead man. A 750-piece band stood motionless. Tall, grey-coated guardsmen paced silently before the great red and black stone mausoleum Stalin had built for Lenin, and now is to share with him until the government builds a promised new Pantheon for Stalin, Lenin and all the lesser gods of Communism...
This week at the annual director-stockholder meeting, Freeman Treasurer Alex L. Hillman, successful publisher (Pageant Homeland, People Today), announced his resignation because "it has been almost impossible for the past six months to run the magazine." With the board lined up against them, Editors Chamberlain Davis La Follette also resigned. Then the directors present unanimously brought back Henry Hazlitt as top editor. As soon as Hazlitt assembles a new staff he expects to recreate a Freeman with a quieter voice. Said he: "I want to put out a journal of opinion which will represent the older liberalism and that...
...Pageant & Comedy. Ward shines in historical set-pieces: the pageantry of Burgoyne surrendering to Gates, the high comedy of the Hessians caught drunk and disheveled the day after Christmas in Trenton, the heroism of Benedict Arnold's almost successful march on Quebec. Ward tells what the soldiers ate. how discipline was enforced, which side did the better scouting. Most of the time, he concludes, the British outgeneraled and outfought the Americans...