Word: pageants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...excited boy standing in the centre of a circle of old men. The gloom and whisper of a temple surrounds them, the rustle of wings is in the shadows above them. Then there is a picture of the boy, his face calm and thoughtful now, walking in the weary pageant of a slow, travel-stained procession along a road through the country. Roughly 18 years later the story goes on again. This time it is a humble, yet triumphant continuity of miracles and splendid words; the pictures are those of a group of men talking in the dusk...
...cheer him, Signor Mussolini withdrew the competition of his own presence. Having greeted the Amir at the station, Il Duce slipped out a side door, sped away down back streets in his bullet-proof limousine. Meanwhile Amir and King stepped into an open carriage. Outriders cracked their whips. The pageant moved...
Officially the 47th session of the Council of the League of Nations was going forward at the League Secretariat; but smart correspondents watched closest the pageant of statesmen at Br'er Briand's inn. Countries...
...Rochester, last week, the Philharmonic Orchestra, under Dr. Howard Hanson of the Eastman School of Music, submitted to a large audience and a jury of six, four manuscript orchestral works of U. S. composers. Pageant of P. T. Barnum by Douglas Moore and Darker America by William Grant Still (Negro) were chosen for publication...
Malolo. The Malolo, newest of the Matson Line's 38 boats, reached Honolulu last week on its maiden trip. "Malolo" in Hawaiian means "flying fish" and the island natives believe that flying fish are unlucky. Yet without reserve they joined a great pageant to welcome the new ship's arrival. It is 585 feet long and contains more than 100 rooms with bath. The Matson Line operates only on the Pacific, chiefly between the U. S. west coast and the Hawaiian Islands. It also has three boats running between San Francisco and Sydney, Australia...