Word: paradee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week I had a big field day. In Chicago they had a wonderful parade, just on account of me. I left the Hotel Bismarck, climbed in a truck. In front of me was at boisterous brass band which kept playing "How Dry I Am." Beside me rode my daddy...
Behind us people were cheering, shouting for beer, waving banners. They all wore my daddy's bright blue badges. They honked horns, squawked squawkers, shot off torpedoes, threw confetti at us. When we reached the Union station, they put me on a train. In Springfield, Ill., I had another...
Lusty Bavarians cheered at Nuremberg last week one whom they hail as "Our King"-the onetime Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria. He, clad in a field-gray uniform, spike-helmeted, reviewed with Prince Oscar of Prussia (rep resenting Wilhelm of Doom) and the great Feldmarschall von Mackensen (TIME, Aug. 11...
Samuel Insull Jr.-short, stocky, quick-spoken-has never had the least doubt of his destiny. Always, yet without obnoxious parade, he has carried himself as the proper successor of a potent sire. There was no starting at the "bottom of the ladder" for him. Graduated from the Sheffield Scientific...
The steamer President Jackson docked at Manila to the blare of trumpets, hooting of whistles, insane racket of rockets, Roman candles, bombs, pistols, firecrackers. Students of the Philippine Women's College endeavored to sing the Hymn of Freedom. Down the gangplank strode Senator Sergio Osmena, took his proper place...