Word: paradee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They contain, of course, a certain charming naivete and primitive vigor which will appeal to all those who are not annoyed by page after page of choppy declarative sentences and who enjoy a continuous parade of childish conceptions. The reader should further be warned not to let the title deceive...
A thousand other colleges also went on opening parade last week, from the University of Maine at Orono to the University of Southern California at Los Angeles. Some had new trappings of professors, buildings, courses; most merely brushed up their fustiness.
Also there was a parade of butchers, millers, coopers and brewers. Standard bearers held aloft their ancient guild emblems and heralds, twinkling in gilded costumes, blew trumpets.
It was the Roman Catholic Church on parade, therefore, in Sydney last week. To fast-growing Sydney, largest city in Australia, capital of New South Wales, came many a priest, many a pilgrim. From Naples came Bonaventura Cardinal Cerreti, witty envoy of the Pope; from San
Smug Broadwayfarers learned last week that the shoguns of the show world, principally the Brothers Shubert, Albert Herman Woods, William A. Brady, Arthur Hammerstein, had bickered among themselves, had dickered with one David R. Hochreich, president of Vocafilm Corporation of America, makers of a talking picture device that theretofore had...