Word: pageants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIMES OF CLEOPATRA, QUEEN OF EGYPT-Arthur Weigall-Putnam ($5.00). The story of Anthony and Cleopatra, immortalized by Shakespeare, would seem so well known as to make repetitions unnecessary. Yet Egyptologist Weigall has created a book that all will delight in reading. His characters live again in the pageant of the past. He has entered the spirit of Egypt and has portrayed with consummate skill and a sympathetic pen the great characters that entered into the life of the proud Ptolemy Queen. It is a fine example of interpretive history, in which events are made the creations of human beings...
...Wembley, the Pageant of the Empire began. It is 'designed to por- tray the development of the Empire. Many prominent people are among the 15,000 taking part in the spectacle, which will cost $500,000, will take three weeks...
...wonders how many Democrats realized that they were acting out a pageant illustrating constitutional history. Probably most of them thought of nothing but that at last they might get something done, which has, after all, been the motivating force in the development of all constitutions." This is no startling contribution to knowledge?every political observer knows, sees that all democracies are in fact oligarchies?but it does raise a number of interesting questions...
Amid the ruins of Pompeii, the Royal University of Naples celebrated its 700th anniversary by a picturesque pageant. Ancient rites of Parthenope (the Greek Naples) were staged in the twilight, including the "lampaded-romiae," wherein beautiful young women in classic drapery ran about handing symbolically from one generation to another the flaming torch of Life and Science...
...bounced over to Boston, and subsequently returned to Mars, there would have been one question to which he could have made no sane answer to inquisitive friends and relatives: " What is the Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S.?" In Philadelphia, passing through Locust Street, he would have seen a pageant of dressed-up priests-a crucifix, bearing a shining cross of gold, torchbearers in red cassocks and cottas, priests in serried ranks followed by monks of the Order of the Holy Cross and the Cowley Fathers. To Mass- High Mass- they went, 700 strong, Had the Martian proceeded...