Word: pageanteers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Supreme Court, Presiding Bishop James DeWolf Perry of the Protestant Episcopal Church, President Thomas Sovereign Gates of the University of Pennsylvania, and hundreds of their oldtime schoolmates at Germantown Academy. All one afternoon Germantown's "old boys" sat on the school grounds, watched a pageant of the Academy's 175-year history. Rightly they felt it a rare thing for a U. S. school to reach...
...Fascist Italy, recalling the bellicose glories of her antiquity, has decided to lay bare the Circus. The sheds, hovels and a gas works have been razed, and removal has started of 800,000 cubic yards of sediment, all by hand labor. When the clearing is finished a great pageant of manly sport will be held in the arena, no doubt under the Caesarean eye of Benito Mussolini...
...nearly 1,000 girls who had come up for the week-end were staying, three chaperones tried to keep track of what was happening. The campus was decorated with statues made of ice and snowmen twelve feet high. The first night of the Carnival, the Outing Club gave its pageant-"Jottunheimer Eiskorneval"-a preposterous affair about Norwegian snow gods and a fancy-skating maiden. A committee chose Pauline Webster of Detroit, a pretty blonde girl who works on the Detroit News, Queen of the Snows, but no one could find the silver cup on which the Queen's name...
...pageantry and heterogeneity of attendance. Park Avenue rubbed elbows with Avenue A when 15,000 debutantes, ward heelers, American Legionaries, professional party-trotters, bearded Henry Latham Doherty, head of the national Ball Committee, and Mrs. Sarah Delano Roosevelt mingled in the five ballrooms of the Waldorf-Astoria. A "Pageant of America," staged by Ned Wayburn, began with Actress Selena Royle as the Atlantic Ocean, attended by Miss Lorraine Fielding as "Seaweed." They were followed by Dancer Ruth St. Denis as "Cotton," Actress Peggy ("I Love Brooklyn") Wood as "Grapes," and Mary Virginia Sinclair, daughter of Harry Ford Sinclair...
...enemies of the Party without, inefficient bureaucrats within. To the infinite disgust of old and unsympathetic moujiks who go to the circus for amusement, the eager young graduates of the Technicum of Circus Art like nothing better than to drop their fun-making and stunts, put on a pageant of the class struggle...