Word: pageanteers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pageant which many a New Yorker thought never to see repeated was given this week for the 50th time. The Metropolitan Opera House shed the dingy warehouse look which it wears through the summers. Lights from the marquees flooded the surrounding sidewalks. Limousines drove up in lines to where flashlight photographers waited to see if the passengers were important enough to "shoot." In another line, earnest men and women drably dressed waited anxiously to get standing place behind the red plush rail inside, to see the faded gold curtains open on the beginning of another winter's opera...
...exact duration and type of the celebration to be held, is speculative. Many suggestions have been received regarding possible ways in which to mark the 300th year of Harvard's existence. A pageant, an athletic Olympiad, class reunions, a week of commemorative exercises throughout the University and various programs to be led by some of Harvard's distinguished sons, are among the many suggestions already received...
After visiting an electrical pageant at the Olympic Stadium as the guest of Publisher Hearst's friend Marion Davies and other cinema celebrities, Governor Roosevelt rolled off to Williams, Ariz. where he joined his wife, spent a few restful hours at the Quarter Circle Double X ranch of Mrs. Isabella Greenway, one of Mrs. Roosevelt's bridesmaids...
...with Prudence, enthusiastic daughter of the vague British Minister, but as Seth really hits his stride Basil's off hours become few & far between. Seth, remodeling his capital, tears down the Anglican Cathedral, renames the site "Place Marie Stopes." Climax of Azanian modernization is to be a Pageant of Birth Control. The pageant turns into a riot, the riot into a revolution. Seth is killed, the English settlement flees the country in airplanes. Prudence's plane has engine trouble, makes a forced landing. Few days later Basil, entertained by friendly cannibal chiefs, eats her unaware...
...Angeles Olympic Stadium. He would have seen also a crowd of 105,000 flowing in orderly fashion into a stadium which contained 30 miles of seats and cost $1,700,000. A lover of the grandiloquent, the ceremonious. Baron de Coubertin would have been charmed by the gay, prodigious pageant of band-music, homing-pigeons, hymns, flags, oaths, Vice President Curtis and 2,000 athletes in bright uniforms with which the Xth Olympiad last week began...