Word: pageanteers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This month that saltiest monarch, beloved King George, who swears unprintable quarter-deck oaths exclusively, has been working up through the Royal Air Force and the Army to the final and greatest pageant of his Silver Jubilee year, the naval review last week at Spithead, off Portsmouth. "Fly Past/- Three brand new Baby Rolls-Royces were at His Majesty's disposal when he went down to Mildenhall, Suffolk, to view some $5,000,000 worth of fighting aircraft which had nearly burned up in a huge grass fire night before. Stepping into an apple-green Baby Rolls, and wearing...
...Poet Rudyard Kipling, at whose home the statesman first met his invaluable, bouncing Wife Lucy. Last week sturdy Squire Baldwin, whose hobby is breeding prize pigs, was the only prominent member of His Majesty's Government who did not take time out to attend the Spithead sea pageant. Cousin Kipling, on the other hand, had been so fired by the prospect of this Silver Jubilee Naval Review that he had been grinding away for weeks in an effort to repeat the success of his Recessional, written for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. Last week 69-year...
...four easy days before going on to West Point to attend the graduation exercises at the U. S. Military Academy. By the time he returns to Washington the Shrine convention will be so far over that he will have to review only the last of three parades, "a spectacular pageant of floats with crews of dancing girls and actors." ¶ Next press conference after the one at which he delivered a message to the nation on the Constitution (TIME, June 10) President Roosevelt had a record attendance: 345 newshawks, crowding into his oval air-cooled office hoping for more sensations...
Cast in the role of smooth-shaven George Washington in a Philadelphia pageant, Pennsylvania's onetime (1922-27) Senator George Wharton Pepper shaved off his grey-bristle mustache, promised to let it grow out after the pageant...
Latin School has a new building in the Boston Fens. Inside is an auditorium seating 2,300 where students last week enacted a pageant of the school's history. Outside is a parade ground where 1,700 boys marched last week in cadet uniforms. But Latin School boys learn their lesson as they always have-by grinding long hours over their books. Headmaster Powers hates "frills" with all the vigor of his Yankee predecessors. Harvard's President Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell turned up at the tercentenary exercises to praise Latin School's "insistence on hard work...