Word: pomp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...initiation dinners come either in December or in early February. Then, in the presence of a great many dinner-jacketed graduates, the new members are brought into the Club building for the first time, are made to undergo initiating rituals of varying degrees of pomp, ceremony, and drunkenness, and are given the symbolic Club ties and front door keys. On most occasions, initiation nights turn ultimately into alcoholic brawls, and the University Police place them high on their winter social calendar. The Cambridge Fire Department also is usually summoned to provide entertainment for this event. Hook and ladder teams descend...
...welcome Heuss, official Britain rolled out its full panoply of protocol, pomp and pageantry. Queen Elizabeth, Prince Philip and Princess Margaret, Harold Macmillan and his Cabinet and Britain's military service chiefs were waiting, with smiles and handshakes, on a red carpet in London's grimy Victoria Station. Artillery in Hyde Park thundered in salute. The scarlet-coated band of the Scots Guards even broke into Deutschland über Alles. Headlined London's tabloid Daily Sketch: O.K., FRITZ, YOU'RE OUT OF THE DOGHOUSE...
...grandeur of the funeral, the mourners 'who thronged the Vatican this week-the foreign statesmen as well as the crowds of Romans who had cheered him for years as he rode through his city -knew the simplicity and the intelligent humanity that had been present beneath the papal pomp. And they would scarcely agree with his humble self-assessment of "failures" and "insufficiency." Men of all faiths agreed that Pius XII had been a great Pope...
...Republic. The scene: the Place de la Republique, in the heart of working-class Paris, where only four months ago a quarter of a million Parisians marched in protest against the death of the Fourth Republic and the return to power of Charles de Gaulle. The occasion: with full pomp and calculated circumstance, De Gaulle has come to the Place de la Republique to present officially to the French people the proposed new constitution that would make him the super-President of the Fifth Republic. The general stands on a crimson dais before a 150-ft. gilded "V" draped...
Class Day that year, one observer reported, "had all the pomp and pageantry, the charm and beauty, the youth and color that has marked the occasion down through the sweep of the years. For Harvard was about to part with an old friend. It appeared difficult for the gathering to realize that Dr. Lowell wouldn't be with them on the class days to come, and they didn't seem to like...