Word: pageants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...than 1,000 bandsmen walked, each making a noise on flute or horn or big bass drum. The citizens of Atlantic City stared and stared. The waves of the ocean thundered along a smooth beach and a wind made the flags snap. This was the Annual Atlantic City Beauty Pageant...
Miss America 1926. Among the pseudonymphs who arrived on the first day of the pageant was Miss America 1926. She, Miss Norma Descynge Smallwood, was expected to lead the beauty parade after the custom for veteran victors. A demure and modest girl last summer, she had now become haughty and proud. She had been making approximately $1,200 weekly since her victory a year ago. Only for a like sum, she in- formed the judges, would she spend a week of her time leading the present crop. The judges demurred, selected Princess America I, an Indian girl called Alice Garry...
Wrapping Mrs. Coolidge in a horseblanket on the grandstand of the Pine Ridge fairgrounds, the President first beheld a Sioux pageant-including war-painted savages, bareback riding and children dressed as beets, carrots, cabbages. He received presents from the Misses Nancy Redcloud, Rosa Red-hair, Jessie Marrowbone, Mary Little Iron, Jennie Blue Horse, Emma No Horse and several chiefs...
Centuries ago the princely archbishops of Falzburg, all-powerful in the city, gave welcome to the drama as a religious agent. They presented the pageant of Saints in Splendor, the drama of God and Satan warring for the soul...
...their beards to grow long and bushy, for President Coolidge was coming to town. They wanted him to see Deadwood as it looked in the days of the gold rush, following 1876, when "Wild Bill" Hickock, "Deadwood Dick" and "Calamity Jane" were kicking up dust in its streets. A pageant was staged for President Coolidge, who gladly shook the wrinkled hand of aged "Deadwood Dick...