Word: paradee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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On the outskirts of a parade ground were thousands of Zulu tribesmen. In the centre were 5,000 warriors, naked except for loincloths of leopard skin. On their left arms they carried shields, in their right hands their famous assagais (spears). On their heads were enormous spreading headdresses of black...
Past the King and Queen, who were accompanied by the Queen Mother Margherieta (proud of her son), Crown Prince Umberto, the Princesses Mafakla and Giovanna, the Duke and Duchess of Aosta (the King's cousins), Benito Mussolini and members of the Diplomatic Corps, marched a two-hour military and...
Their main functions will be to usher in Sanders Theatre and in the Stadium at the different ceremonies. They will have complete control of the gates, supervising the ticket-takers, and giving out programs. The assistant head ushers will marshall the parade to the Stadium in the afternoon.
On Tuesday, the election of a member of the Corporation to fill the place made vacant by the resignation of William Howard Taft, will terminate. Already over 8000 votes have been cast. In the afternoon, the reunion classes will parade to the field for the Harvard baseball game.
One of his papers might well be entitled "A Discourse upon the Corruption of Raincoats at Harvard University," and he could doubtless afford his readers no little diversion by describing a rainy night in Cambridge, and the students, who, happy in the consciousness of having made themselves conspicuous, parade the...