Word: pageants
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...postwar year in which peace seemed to be secured to the world, the news often seemed to be little more than a picture-book pageant of the period's "wonderful normalcy" -of World Series heroes, movie stars and politics-as-usual. And the future appeared even brighter than the present. U.S. business was bouncing off the ropes of a minor recession and picking up momentum for the boom of the '20s. The news that reached the public was often frivolous, frequently reflecting the optimism of the day, only occasionally weighted with vague foreboding of more troubled days...
...Queen Elizabeth II, who was born on April 21, 1926, will celebrate her "official" birthday on June 5, so that her loyal subjects will be more apt to have a sunny day to witness her birthday pageant in Whitehall's Horse Guards parade. Her father, December-born, also officially celebrated June...
From all over the world, other official mourners poured into London to play their ordained parts in the pageant. U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson and his wife arrived in President Truman's private plane, the Independence. At 3 that same afternoon, the Queen's husband Philip went to London Airport to meet his aunt, the Queen of Sweden, and her royal husband Gustaf Adolf. Exiled Prince Paul of Yugoslavia came, and was whisked off by his sister-in-law the Duchess of Kent-just in time to avoid meeting Yugoslavia's Communist President Ribar. Francisco Franco...
After he left Cambridge, Wolff worked for a short time with the Office of War Information. Now he is writing, and has contributed to Collier's, Coronet, Pageant, and New Republic...
...Governor General, who later explained it all. The child's name was Susan Alexander. Three years ago on a trip to England the Alexanders adopted her. They brought her back to Canada, where she has lived ever since in the privacy of the viceregal residence. The Christmas pageant was Susan's first public appearance...