Word: pageanteers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Witnessed a pageant of "the Kings of the Earth" in which King Edward VIII was represented as attending, on the eve of his coronation, a holy roller meeting in the London slums, on which occasion he has a vision of conquering hosts of the Church of God taking the whole world the message of peace and teaching all to seek (he Holy Ghost, the Gift of Tongues...
...half tons of superfine young womanhood were shipped into Atlantic City last week for the 10th Annual Beauty Pageant of the Showmen's Variety Jubilee. No sooner had the 48 girls arrived than Mayor Charles D. White whisked them off to the Steel Pier, launched them on a five-day program designed to promote Atlantic City, produce Miss America...
...Miami University at Oxford, Ohio, where Educator McGuffey once taught classics, some 3,000 members of the Federated McGuffey Societies of America last week repaired to celebrate the Readers' 100th anniversary. There McGuffeyites settled down to enjoy a pageant, a square dance, a barbecue, speeches. Said Ohio's onetime (1929-31) Governor Myers Cooper: "McGuffey, if living today, would be a conservative!" Said Fred L. Black, speechmaker for absent Henry Ford who collects rare Readers, restored the crumbling log-cabin McGuffey birthplace near Claysville, Pa.: "Abraham Lincoln, William Holmes McGuffey and Thomas Edison are the three Americans Henry...
Exposition. With a parade of floats behind him and a pageant of Texas history "under six flags"* before him, Governor Allred will this week tell the world by radio that the Exposition has opened. There next week Franklin Roosevelt will make the major speech of his three-day visit to Texas. And there, if Dallas is to get her money's worth, a good many millions of U. S. citizens will see what Texas has to advertise and how she advertises...
...whole concept of this celebration appeals powerfully to the imagination of all who have any vision of what ought to be. The university will put on a splendid pageant in the Harvard yard and results of permanent value for the world should accrue from the collateral conferences. Indeed, the tercentenary promises to occasion one of the most distinguished gatherings in American history. --Boston Herald