Word: paradee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Major General John Duncan, Commander of the British expeditionary forces at Shanghai (TIME, Feb. 7) shrewdly ordered, last week, a maneuver similar to that of the great Duke of York in the above nursery chanty. General Duncan saw that something must be done to impress the Northern Chinese in Shanghai...
Two days later the statesmanship of U. S. Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg assumedly prompted Vice Admiral Clarence S. Williams, commanding the U. S. forces at Shanghai, to imitate the British parade, though in more cautious fashion. Twelve hundred U. S. marines marched, but they did not venture beyond...
Northeastern University (Boston, Mass.; enrollment, 3,146) suspended all classes one afternoon last week so that the students might parade to the railroad station, return and present to President Frank Palmer Speare a muscular, thick-furred canine, one of the famed Husky-dog team that took diphtheria antitoxin to Nome...
Half a million people. Fat Tuesday. Negroes leading mule-drawn floats. Descendants of Acadians munching tac-tac (pop corn), beignets (doughnuts). Prankish youths in cowboy costumes smacking maidens on their fulsome, laughing lips. Public feasts. Electric bulbs. Bacchanalia Motorcycle policemen. Passenger agents. Twelfth Night Revelers. Heebie-Jeebies. Comus, Momus, Mystics...
Mr. Sever instead showed himself a true and thrifty son of his college by supporting "a Cambridge institution". With Appleby Hollishemer he utilized the ticket allowing him to be bored free of charge at the cave of the riots. He got his nothing's worth, for he was not even...