Word: pomp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London, the Seventh Anniversary was celebrated with Bolshevik pomp at Chesham House, whilom abode of the Imperial Russian Embassy, by Charge d'Affaires and Madame Christian G. Rakovsky...
...obscure rendezvous in Paris the meeting will take replace. 'No blare of trumpets, no strains of martial music, no pomp and circumstance worthy of the Emperor of the Russians will mark the debut of Cyril into the political whirl of Europe. That is all for the future. The Prefect of Police has ordered out no extra details of gendarmes to handle the crowds. The hotels have created to tents on their roofs to accommodate the influx of Russian nobles. Society of gay French capital is in no frenzy of excitement "of the prospect of leaving so much royalty...
...whom he assisted financially on sundry and odd occasions. He was also a patron of the arts and for some time supported the famed producer Max Reinhardt, for whom he built a theatre. So fond was he of appearing in the public limelight that he lived with all the pomp and ceremony of royalty, even traveling in the Kaiser Karl's private parlor car, which he bought...
...history of the 650 years of the Holy Name Society (TIME, Sept 22) was printed in 175 U. S. newspapers. It was retold in gorgeous pomp before 100,000 members assembled in Washington...
...Washington, with small pomp, a delegation from the American Federation of Labor approached Senator La-Follette and notified him, not of his nomination, but of his endorsement by the Federation. The chief part of the unceremonial ceremony was a speech by Frank Morrison, Secretary of the A. F. of L. Said...