Word: pomp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...biggest regattas since King George V went there to sail in 1935. This time, too, there was racing royalty on hand. The sports-loving Duke of Edinburgh left his queen at home, and by helicopter hastened out to the royal yacht Britannia, happy to escape temporarily from Buckingham pomp and ceremony. At sundown on each racing day bluebloods and commoners alike thronged Cowes's pubs or gathered on boats to roar out a night of song and story over Scotch and pink...
...place like the Beverly Hilton. From start to finish, it has been his own special baby. To make sure that everything goes just right at the opening, Hilton even worked up a 58-page script, plotting every move, allocating every magnum of Besserat de Bellefon champagne, with all the pomp and precision of a Hollywood extravaganza. On buses from the airport, there will be guitarists and champagne; as the guests tour through the Red Lion Bar, a replica of an 11th century English pub, more refreshments will be served. Says the script: "Please note that as the tour goes through...
...this ancient pomp, there was one concession to scruffy present reality. Because of the rail strike, the Queen gave up her traditional golden coach, instead drove to Westminster in a closed car to avoid drawing sightseeing crowds to add to London's traffic snarl. But inside the House of Lords, ancient ceremony took over. Resplendent in white net and diamanté, the imperial crown gleaming on her head and heavy purple robes sweeping back from her shoulders, the young Queen read the Speech from the Throne, written for her by "my government," to an assemblage glittering with peers...
...casual contrast to the bejeweled pomp of the strongmen's council in Peru (see above), Arias and Figueres, with their Foreign Ministers, sat down at a table placed astride the international boundary line. With banana pickers, cops and Cabinet Ministers wandering freely around, the ceremonies were simple and unsecretive. Costa Rica offered Panama a written invitation, under informal discussion for the past few months, to join the Organization of Central American States, which already includes all the other isthmian countries between Mexico and South America (Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica...
...martial air. Rain had canceled the air flypast, and Party Secretary Khrushchev, clad in a fawn raincoat and bright green hat, had stolen some of the show by escorting attractive Ekaterina Furtseva, a Moscow party official, to the podium. But now, after the trumpets, Zhukov, with all the pomp and ceremony which the occasion demanded, went to center stage to deliver the official speech...