Word: pomp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pasture Queen, etc. -each accompanied by a masked "Duke" in wig, buckled shoes and knee breeches. Each queen curtsied low to the evening's guests of honor, Vice President Richard Nixon and his wife Pat. Nixon responded to each with a low bow, and to the strains of Pomp and Circumstance, escorted the Queen of the Ball to her throne...
Suddenly a hush came over the crowd, and somebody started playing "Pomp and Circumstance" on the piano. I saw Carroll dashing to some pre-arranged place, and a solemn lad strode up on the stage carrying a little pot. A Pudding pot, I assume. Someone started giving a speech, and I drifted over to check on Miss Baker...
...Lofty Pomp. Thus began a long series of official functions with Ike, Dulles, Richard Nixon, Defense Secretary Charles Wilson, and official talks with the President and the Secretary of State. Highlight of the week was Ike's high-level, white-tie stag dinner at the White House for some 60 guests, including a dozen or so oilmen and bankers-and not including newsmen. There followed a heavy, split-second schedule for Saud; every moment away from business he spent in side trips, e.g., a wreath for the Unknown Soldier, a tour of the U.S. Naval Academy, a basketball game...
...blowing brass bands, the lofty pomp and the great sweep of social events never succeeded in drowning out. nor even interrupting, the central purpose of Saud's visit: high-stakes diplomacy...
Bumbling Officials. Only two months ago the Mirror had delivered its own prognosis of the press-palace rift in a three-part series that reproached the royal family for "aloofness." Chided the Mirror: "This should have been the age when kings mixed with commoners, when pomp shaved off its whiskers and came down to the people. Unhappily, this is still the age of golden cobwebs...